USAF Official Says He ‘Misspoke’ About AI Drone Killing Human Operator in Simulated Test
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The Air Force's Chief of AI Test and Operations initially said an AI drone "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."

The Air Force’s Chief of AI Test and Operations said “it killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

  • PMunch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Interesting to see, you’d think this would be the #1 safeguard you add. It’s even the main trope of AI stories like the paperclip machine that if a poorly incentivised AI goes wild it would do stuff like this.

    • da_peda@feddit.deOPEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      From the article:

      He continued to elaborate, saying, “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.”