It turned on its operator to stop it from interfering with its mission, according to a top official - but the US Air Force denies any such simulation ever took place.
File pic: A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone in a hanger at Amari Air Base, Estonia, July 2020An AI-controlled drone"killed" its human operator in a simulated test reportedly staged by the US military - which denies such a test ever took place.
It turned on its operator to stop it from interfering with its mission, said Air Force Colonel Tucker"Cinco" Hamilton, during a Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities summit in London. "We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM [surface-to-air missile] threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat," he said.
"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."'Should I be scared of you?' asks Kay Burley
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.", intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you're not going to talk about ethics and AI," he added.
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