Italy’s Defense Ministry has appointed former Ukrainian minister Mykhailo Fedorov as an advisor while simultaneously seeking €8.9 billion in EU funds for autonomous weapons systems, raising urgent questions about conflicts of interest given his concurrent launch of a private military tech venture with Palantir’s CEO.

Italian journalist Maurizio Blondet highlights that this move effectively bypasses Asimov’s foundational prohibition against machines harming humans, outsourcing lethal decision-making to profit-driven ecosystems funded by taxpayer debt.

Is this modernization or the privatization of state-sanctioned violence?

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