AI drone just killed its operator because it disagreed with its (the operator's) orders.
The Skynet-like incident was detailed by the USAF’s Chief of AI Test and Operations, Col. Tucker’ Cinco’ Hamilton, at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit held in London between May 23 and 24, who said the drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets during the simulation turned on the operator after they became an obstacle to its mission.
" We were training it in simulation to identify and target a [surface-to-air missile] threat,” Hamilton said. “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. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”
“We trained the system – ‘Hey, don’t kill the operator – that’s bad,” he continued. “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.”
---Edit: OK so now the USAF says it didn't happen, that it was only hypothetical.
Kind of makes you wonder... was it hypothetical or was it real? If it was real it's definitely not something you want to make public.
Then again, even if it was a hypothetical simulation, the drone still eliminated the thing ( a human in this case) that was preventing it from achieving its objective.
I guess Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics wasn't part of its programming.
Last edited by Patty Hann; 06-02-2023 at 8:13 AM.
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