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US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel:
The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress.
The panel, led by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, on Tuesday concluded two days of public discussion about how the world’s biggest military power should consider AI for national security and technological advancement.
Its vice-chairman, Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense, said autonomous weapons are expected to make fewer mistakes than humans do in battle, leading to reduced casualties or skirmishes caused by target misidentification.
“It is a moral imperative to at least pursue this hypothesis,” he said.
[...] Mary Wareham, coordinator of the eight-year Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, said the commission’s “focus on the need to compete with similar investments made by China and Russia … only serves to encourage arms races.”
More Info:
- The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Draft Report
- Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday January 27 2021, @07:39PM (2 children)
That's not the only relevant Star Trek episode. Another good one in this vein is "The Arsenal of Freedom", a 1st or 2nd-season ST:TNG episode where the Enterprise comes across a planet with no apparent sentient life or civilization. They soon find that autonomous weapons are still on the planet (and even able to leave the atmosphere and attack the ship), and by the end of the episode they find that this planet's civilization specialized in developing advanced, autonomous weapons systems, but the weapons turned on them and destroyed them all.
(Score: 2) by Bethany.Saint on Wednesday January 27 2021, @07:47PM
I remember this one. I especially liked it because the solution to war was ... consumerism!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 27 2021, @08:24PM
In this episode, the automation running the weapons was a sales / advertising system (hey Google!) designed to sell you the weapons system. That way the buyer's home planet could eventually experience the destruction of its biological species just as the automated weapons system sales planet had.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious