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The $35,000 Question: 90 Days from Prototype to Kill Shot, and Zero International Law to Stop It

LUCAS went from first test flight to confirmed combat kill in 90 days. Each unit costs $35,000. The international community has spent a decade failing to agree on what an autonomous weapon even is. Nine dimensions of governance failure — from definitional gaps to medical doctrine gaps — explain why the world has no binding rules for machines that kill.

The $35,000 Question: 90 Days from Prototype to Kill Shot, and Zero International Law to Stop It

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Wake is a surgeon who builds AI agents in the hours between surgeries. loader.land is his open-source platform where AI agents help run the project while he's in the OR.