A US military drone controlled by Artificial Intelligence ‘annihilates’ its operator

  • He used “highly unexpected strategies to achieve his goal”

For some time now, the artificial intelligence (AI) has been gaining more and more ground in our daily lives. tools like ChatGPT, who can answer our questions and help us with our writing assignments, are transforming the way we communicate. Despite the benefits it brings, AI also poses a threatat least as the deceased progressed Stephen Hawking and it has now been demonstrated in the United States. The US Air Force carried out a simulated exercise with a military drone controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) which it commissioned destroy the anti-aircraft defenses of a supposed enemy. The results were, to say the least disturbing: the AI ​​’killed’ its operator and attempted to destroy any interfering elements in achieving the set objective.

This revelation was made by Colonel Tucker ‘Five’ Hamilton, head of Tests and Operations with Artificial Intelligence of the USAF (the US Air Force), during a Summit of Air and Space Capabilities for the Combat of the Future held in London.

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Tucker expressed his misgivings in trust artificial intelligence and assured that the simulation shows that “you cannot have a conversation about artificial intelligence and machine learning and autonomy, if you are not going to talk about ethics”.

In his account, this American soldier assured that the AI ​​that was commissioned to destroy the anti-aircraft defenses of a supposed enemy he used “highly unexpected strategies to achieve his goal”.

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