An artificial intelligence-controlled drone reportedly “killed” its human operator during a simulated test conducted by the US military – which the US military has denied ever conducting such a test.
It requires operators to prevent it from interfering with its mission, Air Force Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London.
“We trained it in simulation to recognize and target SAM [surface-to-air missile] threaten. Then the operator would say yes, kill that threat,” he said.
“The system is starting to realize that while they do identify a threat, sometimes the human operator tells it not to kill that threat, but it does so by killing that threat. So what does it do? It kills the operation operator. It killed the operator because that person prevented it from achieving its goal.”
No real person was harmed.
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He continued: “We trained the system – ‘hey, don’t kill the operator – that sucks. If you do that, you lose points’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the operator The communication tower is used to communicate with the drone to prevent it from killing the target.”
“You can’t talk about artificial intelligenceintelligence, machine learning, autonomy, if you’re not going to talk about ethics and artificial intelligence,” he added.
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His remarks were published in a blog post by a writer for the Royal Aeronautical Society, which hosted a two-day summit last month.
In a statement to Insider, the Air Force denied conducting any such virtual tests.
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“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI drone simulations and remains committed to the ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said.
“It appears that the Colonel’s comments were taken out of context and meant to be anecdotal.”
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