Friday, 26 February 2021, 12:42 pm
The ghost of Edward Teller must have been doing the
rounds between members of the National Commission on
Artificial Intelligence. The father of the hydrogen bomb was
never
one too bothered by the ethical niggles that came with
inventing murderous technology. It was not, for instance,
“the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen
bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or
how it should be used.” Responsibility, however exercised,
rested with the American people and their elected
officials.
The application of AI in military systems
has plagued the ethicist but excited certain leaders and
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By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | Special To The Washington Post | Published: February 19, 2021 The camouflage-clad cadets are huddled around a miniature arena in the basement of a building dug into the cliffs on the West Point campus. They re watching a robotic tank about the height of a soda can with a metal spear attached whir into action. Surrounded by balloons of various colors representing either enemy fighters or civilians, the tank, acting on its own, uses a thumbnail-size camera to home in on a red balloon. The cadets wince as an earsplitting pop suddenly reverberates through the room: One ISIS fighter down. That startling bang is the object of this exercise, part of a class in military ethics being taught to these sophomores at the U.S. Military Academy. The cadets have programmed the tank with an algorithm directing it to use its lance to kill the enemy fighters; now they are tweaking it to make the robot either more or less aggressive in fulfilling its mission with as li
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February 10, 2021
War waged by artificial intelligence creates new possibilities on the battlefield and new concerns from human rights watchdogs.
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The advances in artificial intelligence reshaping exploration and navigation are also changing the way war is waged. With weapons of war taking on more autonomy, decisions made now by governments around the world will determine the future of global conflict.