AI Weapons

Juan Mourep

Juan Mourep

Vital 1st Team Regular
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/07/musk-hawking-wozniak-call-for-ban-on-autonomous-weaponry-and-military-ai/?

A very large number of scientific and technological luminaries have signed an open letter calling for the world's governments to ban the development of "offensive autonomous weapons" to prevent a "military AI arms race."

The letter, which will be presented at the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Buenos Aires tomorrow, is signed by Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Noam Chomsky, the Woz, and dozens of other AI and robotics researchers.

For the most part, the letter is concerned with dumb robots and vehicles being turned into smart autonomous weapons. Cruise missiles and remotely piloted drones are okay, according to the letter, because "humans make all targeting decisions." The development of fully autonomous weapons that can fight and kill without human intervention should be nipped in the bud, however.

Here's one of the main arguments from the letter:

The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting. If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow.


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Well if anyone has seen the Terminator movies (just the first two) then we should really know better shouldn't we.

I don't want T-1000s running down the street after me (for my 1000th post I had to make the reference, thanks Juan, you chipped it up for me, I knocked it in :17: )


 
This is already well at an advanced stage by technology/ software houses merging AI with defense tech. Hell even google bought DARPA ( Boston Dynamics ) for god knows what - and I don't believe the recent hype that they have completely refused military funding completely either. Do I agree with it? bloody hell no. When you hear stories of the first drone remotely firing a handgun at a designated target on command and achieving it these are scary times indeed
 
I have no doubt that such tech already exists, I also doubt that any amount of protesting would make the blindest bit of difference, but people should be aware of where this is heading.

 
I think people are too preoccupied with the latest episode of geordy shore to give a shit pal
 
People should be made more aware. They should protest en-bloc because this could be the end of the world as we know it in a very short period.

 
The sooner the human race destroys itself, the sooner this planet can get back to normal. It's going to happen eventually, whether through stealth factors such as climate change, or killer robots. Lets just get it out of the way, and give every other species a chance.
 
gooser76 - 27/7/2015 23:08

I think people are too preoccupied with the latest episode of geordy shore to give a shit pal
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Sad but true...
 
HeathfieldRoad1874 - 28/7/2015 06:46

The sooner the human race destroys itself, the sooner this planet can get back to normal. It's going to happen eventually, whether through stealth factors such as climate change, or killer robots. Lets just get it out of the way, and give every other species a chance.
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Amen...

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With Cern and the mad scientists too busy finding out all the details on what glues and moulds matter and the universe together so other humans can destroy anything and everything and also this AI stuff going on i honestly think science needs to be curbed like religion, anything that helps people live like medicine great but i just see science going way too far and will end up destroying us by opening pandora's box
 
ClivetheVillan - 29/7/2015 00:09

With Cern and the mad scientists too busy finding out all the details on what glues and moulds matter and the universe together so other humans can destroy anything and everything and also this AI stuff going on i honestly think science needs to be curbed like religion, anything that helps people live like medicine great but i just see science going way too far and will end up destroying us by opening pandora's box
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LOL. It's a bit late for that, Clive. I would suggest it was too late the minute the Steam Engine was invented.

Science is curbed. Their are enormous controls on what can and can't be researched. GM foods or human cloning, for example.

Your example of medicine only also shows how complicated it all is. In researching medicines you are also working in the field of biological weapons, gene manipulation and poisons. The line you want t o draw is a bit vague.
 
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