Should the government invest in artificial intelligence (AI) for defense applications?

No

Maybe in certain aspects but it would also have to be properly monitored

i don't think that we should be encouraging the use of AI in general, as it can be harmful to women and people in general, but can be used for some good things.

Yes but only for applications proven to work with AI

Small investment into if, however putti no money into defence is a waste cause we are not getting attacked

No, this would set a dangerous precedent and lead to coldly effective but immoral foreign policy decisions.

I think that whilst the implementation of AI into the armed forces is inevitable, and that because other countries will utilise the benefits of AI usage in the military, it is only a matter of time that an arms race for the militarisation of AI (much like the nuclear arms race during the cold war) will happen if it hasn't already and therefore we should not be left behind in terms of military capability with potential adversaries; I do not think that the militarisation of AI is a good thing. Firstly, it will only serve to make defence contractors and military industrial complex [who are…  Read more far removed from any harm, danger and suffering that their products cause] even more powerful, richer and influential than even in its current state, but it will remove the human factor from warfare. To explain what I mean by this... Would a hypothetical military AI be able to distinguish between combatant and non-combatant? How would it know not to fire on a surrendering combatant if it was programmed to kill said combattant? Would it even make sense to fight wars if AI can independently and autonomously identify, seek, attack and destroy human targets, therefore reducing the human involvement in war? To summarise, I think the militarisation of AI is inevitable, so it would be disadvantageous to not utilise it when a potential adversary would readily use it for their benefit, but that is not to say that's a good thing, quite the opposite as posed by my rhetorical questions from earlier.