The U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations.
Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane.
The new “Special Operations Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.
I hope that they, at least, partially remember John Cameron’s work and will set reliable restrictions for AI. The last thing we need today is an analog of a Skynet…
There is no such thing as a reliable restriction on a system that has a catastrophic failure rate of 1% per task (at best).
At very least, I hope that they will not give it access to ballistic missiles. Moreover to nuclear ones.