Comment by hunglee2
2 years ago
AI generated kill lists are sadly inevitable. Had hoped we'd get a few more years before we'd actually see it being deployed. Lots to think about here
2 years ago
AI generated kill lists are sadly inevitable. Had hoped we'd get a few more years before we'd actually see it being deployed. Lots to think about here
They're great because the accountability for fuckups goes on the system, not on the people using the system. "Oops, the system had a bug" doesn't kill careers like "Oops, I made a bad call."
Bombing civilians doesn’t kill careers. People were promoted for what they did during strategic air campaigns.
AIs that generate kill lists that kill the innocent should themselves be put on a kill list.
Edit: And the humans who approved the list should be help accountable, of course.
Such things have been around for at least a decade. It didn't start with the same kind of AI that's being talked about recently, but there is a large automated scoring component: "Targets are often chosen based on metadata."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Can't wait to be killed by drone strike when a GPT hallucinates my name.
Depending on your definition of AI they’ve probably been around for a while.
This does seem to be a big step more “AI” than previous systems I’ve heard described though.
How do you think people are chosen to visit a secret CIA prison, or chosen to get a 12 hour interrogation every time they enter the US?
I don't know about kill lists, but AI weapons kinda make sense.
No weapons are nice, but if the good guys don't develop AI weapons, the bad guys will.
From what I gather, many US engineers are morally opposed to them. But if China develops them and gets into a war with the US, will Americans be happy to lose knowing that they have the moral high ground?
This assumes that AI based weaponry provides value. The case in point here is showing that the only value it provides is a flimsy justification for civilian casualties. We... Don't need more of that in the US, nor would it provide a "good guy" any legitimate value.
Right, just like if the good guys don't develop a novel coronavirus in a lab, the bad guys will and unleash it on the world!
Development of tools of death is not a good guy/bad guy thing. The "bad guys" think the "good guys" are bad.
I think "killing" is bad, no matter who develops the tools.
There are certainly times when killing is justified. Defeating the Axis in WW2 is a great example of this.
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"Good guys" and "bad guys". Where did you learn your ethics, the Cartoon Network?