hold such an honor. with that, thank you, panel, and i ll turn it over to george. great, thanks a lot. [ applause ] great, thank you. what we want to do have as much of a conversation as possible, first amongst ourselves up here, and then with you all, to basically draw out a number of the dilemmas in this area and to help identify what are the questions that might be the most worth pursuing, as different countries and different actors move down this agenda. so to start us, i want to ask the general to build on what david said a bit. certainly there must be other drivers beyond dealing with numerical asymmetries that would make autonomous systems attractive to a military and to a government in terms of problems they solve and advantages they confer. can you give us your perspective, what are the attractions of autonomy in this space? i ll start by saying that one can t get away from the fact that weapons are meant to destroy and kill. but they destroy and kill, supposed t
happened in the decades before. it s a lot of policy like the 1994 bill, and democracy was basically neglectful. it neglected the ramifications that you saw up on the film, the impact of relying on incarceration, the impact on families and individuals and communities. it absolutely neglected that. it neglected the evidence that we know that exists about the kinds of good policies that can actually put people on the road to success that can actually deliver public safety for us, and that can actually be the spine for good policy. so democracy has work to do here in a different way now. we have a job to do over the next decades to turn back what we have built, and so that s why it s good that all of you are in this room and you will go about your work focusing not only on training and education and making sure that programs, the quality programs are, find their way back into prison and into the re-entry sphere but you re also going to have to do something else beyond just being
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