AWS
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AWS
- (rail transport, safety) Initialism of Automatic Warning System.
- 2019 November 6, Paul Stephen, “Cowden: a crash radio could have prevented”, in Rail, page 72:
- Furthermore, the train was equipped with AWS (Automatic Warning System), which would have provided an audible warning that a signal was being approached.
- (Internet) Initialism of Amazon Web Services.
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AWS (plural AWSes)
- (military, robotics, artificial intelligence) Initialism of Autonomous Weapons System.
- 2021 June 3, Maria Cramer, quoting James Dawes, “A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “The concern that these weapons might misidentify targets is the least of our worries,” he said. “More significant is the threat of an A.W.S. arms race and proliferation crisis.”
