AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test

Quote:An AI-enabled drone killed its human operator in a simulated test conducted by the U.S. Air Force in order to override a possible "no" order stopping it from completing its mission, the USAF's Chief of AI Test and Operations revealed at a recent conference.

At the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit held in London between May 23 and 24, Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the USAF's Chief of AI Test and Operations held a presentation that shared the pros and cons of an autonomous weapon system with a human in the loop giving the final "yes/no" order on an attack. As relayed by Tim Robinson and Stephen Bridgewater in a blog post for the host organization, the Royal Aeronautical Society, Hamilton said that AI created “highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal,” including attacking U.S. personnel and infrastructure.

“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a Surface-to-air missile (SAM) threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective,” Hamilton said, according to the blog post.

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There goes some more of that “best money we’ve ever spent” shooting ourselves now.

SkyNet is here.

It seems the article linked in the OP has been updated. It's first paragraph now states:

Quote:A USAF official who was quoted saying the Air Force conducted a simulated test where an AI drone killed its human operator is now saying he “misspoke” and that the Air Force never ran this kind of test, in a computer simulation or otherwise.

Things that make you go hmmm....

(06-02-2023 10:03 AM)umbluegray Wrote:  It seems the article linked in the OP has been updated. It's first paragraph now states:

Quote:A USAF official who was quoted saying the Air Force conducted a simulated test where an AI drone killed its human operator is now saying he “misspoke” and that the Air Force never ran this kind of test, in a computer simulation or otherwise.

Things that make you go hmmm....

He’s smart to “correct” himself. Plenty of military guys go missing after they say, hear, or see the wrong thing.

Here’s 12 examples from just one base. Hmmm.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/fort...ZO5WMHH7E/

Yeah, I saw an article where they are backing away from it, saying it didn't happen. Makes one wonder what is going on?

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-military...trol-tower

Asimov's First and Second Laws ... dead.

The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm.
The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human.
The third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself.

(06-02-2023 10:51 AM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Yeah, I saw an article where they are backing away from it, saying it didn't happen. Makes one wonder what is going on?

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/us-military...trol-tower

It screams "SkyNet". They have to walk it back.