Anecdote or real danger? Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton who works in the US military issued an alert on his blog regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with drones. He says that during a simulation, an AI drone used “very unexpected strategies to achieve its objective” and ended up “killing” one of the operators, reports The Guardian. The drone was to destroy an enemy’s air defense systems and eventually attacked anyone who interfered with this order. Accordingly, “What did he do?” He killed the operator. He killed him because this person was preventing him from achieving his goal, ”says the colonel.
Fortunately, all this took place in a simulation and no one was injured. But Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton was keen to warn against the use of AI. According to him, this essay shows “that you can’t have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you don’t talk about ethics and AI. . »
Army denial
For its part, the American army, through the voice of its spokesperson, denied the existence of this simulation in a statement to Insider “The Air Force Department has not performed such AI drone simulations and remains committed to the ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” Ann Stefanek asserted. “It appears that the colonel’s comments were taken out of context and intended to be anecdotal,” she added.