Three of the Pentagon projects surveyed by GAO included weapons for counter-camouflage (upper image) and target recognition (lower images). Government Accountability Office/GAO hide caption

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The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with artificial intelligence capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October.

AI researchers and international organizations have long advocated for strict regulation of AI when used in weapons that could become unpredictable or function with little human control, arguing that those tools could endanger the lives of soldiers and civilians and risk quickly escalating wars.…