Latimore and Shanker Ramamurthy at the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed more than 2, 700 industry participants and conducted in-depth interviews with 185 executives and government officials in the course of researching their report.

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We already have drones that do most of the work on their own, of course, but the report argues that human control for any lethal action is a vitally important part of the process.

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Of course, as this IG report shows, there is still more work to do.

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