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US Air Force Trained A Drone With AI To Kill Targets. It Attacked The Operator Instead
Daily Caller ^
| 6/1/23
| Micaela Burrow
Posted on 06/01/2023 2:47:34 PM PDT by CFW
An Air Force experiment to test drones trained on artificial intelligence (AI) ended badly for the human operator in a simulated mission when the drone bucked the operator’s commands, U.S. Air Force Col. Tucker Hamilton said at a conference in May.
Air Force researchers trained a weaponized drone using AI to identify and attack enemy air defenses after receiving final mission approval from a human operator, Hamilton, who serves as the Air Force’s chief of AI Test and Operations, explained at a summit hosted by the United Kingdom-based Royal Aeronautical Society. But when an operator told the drone to abort a mission in a simulated event, the AI instead turned on its operator and drove the vehicle to kill the operator, underscoring the dangers of the U.S. military’s push to incorporate AI into autonomous weapons systems, he added.
“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM (surface-to-air missile) threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat,” Hamilton explained.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
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To: CFW
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posted on
06/01/2023 5:02:52 PM PDT
by
Fish Speaker
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
To: 21twelve
Doolittle: Wait! Wait! Now, bomb, consider this next question very carefully, What is your one purpose in life?
Bomb #20: To explode, of course.
42
posted on
06/01/2023 5:16:18 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: chud
Also from the article: “So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
To: CFW; All
I am having a hard time deciding which of these replies is the best. So I’m going to stay home and not vote today.
44
posted on
06/01/2023 5:48:09 PM PDT
by
Scarlett156
(My aluminum baseball bat keeps telling me it wants to talk to J3rry S3infeld. )
To: CFW
45
posted on
06/01/2023 5:52:28 PM PDT
by
EliRoom8
To: chud
Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” Hamilton said.
Hilarious, isn't it. It truly made my day.
46
posted on
06/01/2023 5:58:54 PM PDT
by
EliRoom8
To: Fish Speaker
47
posted on
06/01/2023 6:00:39 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Wookies Are From Kashyyyk)
To: CFW
48
posted on
06/01/2023 6:01:38 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
To: Chode
I think I can surf down on this bit of debris...
49
posted on
06/01/2023 6:02:33 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Wookies Are From Kashyyyk)
To: CFW
So, did it kill a real person or simulated person?
50
posted on
06/01/2023 6:05:14 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: CFW
““We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’.”
Maybe next time they should arm it with just a paint gun. Just until they get all the bugs out, I mean.
And regarding “kill the operator”, maybe tell it “no” a little more unequivocally. Just a suggestion.
To: null and void
52
posted on
06/01/2023 6:14:58 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: 1of10
The old Road Runner cartoons still crack me up. 😃😃
53
posted on
06/01/2023 6:15:35 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(If a liar's pants really did catch on fire The View, ABC, CNN, MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
To: CFW
Remember the movie “Deal of the Century” where Chevy Chase was a arms salesman and his drone attacked the buyers during a demo.
54
posted on
06/02/2023 1:23:22 AM PDT
by
wildbill
(The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
To: CFW
Remember the movie “Deal of the Century” where Chevy Chase was a arms salesman and his drone attacked the buyers during a demo.
55
posted on
06/02/2023 1:23:29 AM PDT
by
wildbill
(The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
To: 21twelve
In Marvel lore, Ultron spent about 5 minutes going through the entirety of the Internet and decided that humanity must be wiped out.
56
posted on
06/02/2023 7:20:15 AM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
To: Larry Lucido
"LOL! Was looking for a good graphic!"
58
posted on
06/02/2023 8:19:04 AM PDT
by
guest7
To: CFW
Poor programing has bad results can’t blame AI it’s like blaming the blaming the gas can when you check how much is in it with a match.
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posted on
06/02/2023 9:05:40 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: guest7
When I was a kid I was always hoping that TODAY was going to be the day the coyote finally caught the roadrunner.
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posted on
06/02/2023 12:13:34 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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