Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey's new Pentagon roles raise ethics worries

Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5232x3488+0+0/resize/5232x3488!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F77%2F19%2F0fa089eb40768ba50e735c6a5a1e%2Fap26152829867592.jpg' alt='Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced "Project Meridian: The Future of Warfare," a study of automated and AI-powered weaponry.'/><p>Musk's company, SpaceX, and Luckey's company Anduril, could potentially benefit from recommendations made in the study about future autonomous weapon systems.</p><p>(Image credit: Carolyn Kaster)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5991899' />