Quote of the day by Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey: 'There's no moral high ground in using inferior technology' challenging the dominant narrative over AI use in defense

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Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:20:53 +0000

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The ethics of AI usage matter less than using the best possible tools, according to Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey.

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Palmer Luckey has played a major part in many major names in the tech industry, including founding Oculus VR, but has risen to prominence for his stewardship of Anduril Industries in 2017 which puts artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of its operations and capabilities. "If you're talking
about killing people, you need to be minimizing the amount of collateral damage So, to me, there's no moral high ground in using inferior technology, even if it allows you to say things like, 'We never let a robot decide who lives and who dies'." Palmer Luckey, December 2025 The question of AI ethics Luckey has long been a proponent of the use of AI in defense, with the
Anduril founder even naming his company as such because it shares the
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Read the full series here . Speaking with Fox News Sunday in December 2025,
he outlined a philosophy that it's much safer, in ways, to incorporate the best possible technologies into military capabilities than it is to ignore emerging innovation, whether AI or quantum, and be left with 'lesser' tech. Latest Videos From Watch full video here:

For Luckey, there's seemingly no point in taking the moral high ground when talking about matters of life and death when the very nature of the business is morally called into question to begin with. The future of military technology Luckey's statement challenges the common orthodoxy that humans
must always be in the loop over high-stakes decision-making, especially with matters of life and death. And, for that reason, it's highly controversial. You may like 'AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, therell be great companies' - quote of the day by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether [we] possess the maturity to wield it" warnings on the looming threat of beyond-human AI Quote of the day by Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang: "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful"
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The direction of travel is not, however, up for debate, with plenty of examples of AI becoming increasingly prominent in international conflicts.

Ukrainian officials, for example, recently revealed that in 2024, the
nation's military used drones to kill Russian soldiers marking the earliest reported example of the autonomous killing of humans. Are you a pro?
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Without doubt, it won't have been the last such incident, and points to a future in which those engaged in conflict are likely to use every tool at their disposal to achieve their military aims, regardless of the moral implications.



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