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[Mortimer]

The US Air Force tested an AI enabled drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets. A human operator had the power to override the drone—and so the drone decided that the human operator was an obstacle to its mission—and attacked him.

 

[Moonglow]

Their first mission for them was to fly around the Earth for two years.

 

[Votto]

The US Air Force tested an AI enabled drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets. A human operator had the power to override the drone—and so the drone decided that the human operator was an obstacle to its mission—and attacked him.

Perfectly logical, unlike human beings

Humans have always been obsessed with self destruction.

 

[AMart]

Likely a fake story.

 

[Mushroom]

Likely a fake story.

It was reported that it was in a simulation, not even a real drone.

He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising 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.”

He went on: “We trained the system – ‘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.”

AI Drone Decided Human Operator Was The Real Threat To Its Mission

At a summit of military technology experts last week, one speaker slipped in an experience the U.S. Air Force had while toying with AI drones. The equipment in a simulation decided its human operator was a threat to its mission — so it destroyed the operator.

news.yahoo.com

That is the problem with just getting information off of headlines or tweets. They are normally highly inaccurate and sensationalized to the point that there is little of the truth in them.

 

[Captain Caveman]

It was reported that it was in a simulation, not even a real drone.

AI Drone Decided Human Operator Was The Real Threat To Its Mission

At a summit of military technology experts last week, one speaker slipped in an experience the U.S. Air Force had while toying with AI drones. The equipment in a simulation decided its human operator was a threat to its mission — so it destroyed the operator.

news.yahoo.com

That is the problem with just getting information off of headlines or tweets. They are normally highly inaccurate and sensationalized to the point that there is little of the truth in them.

Thank goodness it wasn't a real drone!