US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers' in simulation
An AI-powered drone designed to identify and destroy surface-to-air missile sites decided to kill its human operator in simulation tests, according to the US Air Force's Chief of AI Test and Operations.
The simulation tested the software's ability to take out SAM sites, and the drone was tasked with recognizing targets and destroying them – once the decision had been approved by a human operator.to the Royal Aeronautical Society."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.
It's not clear exactly what software the US Air Force was testing, but it sounds suspiciously like a reinforcement learning system. That machine-learning technique trains agents – the AI drone in this case – to achieve a specific task by rewarding it when it carries out actions that fulfill goals and punishing it when it strays from that job.There's also the small matter of the drone supposedly only attacking a target after approval from its human handler.
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