The head of Microsoft, Brad Smith, issued a warning at the weekend that deadly robots are “insurmountable” and a new Digital Geneva convention is required.
Most science fiction fans will think about the terminator when they hear about deadly robots. In the classic film series, dishonest military AI called Skynet gained self -awareness after spreading to millions of servers around the world. To sum up that people are trying to close him, Skynet tried to exterminate all humanity in the interest of self -preservation.
While it was only a popcorn film, the terminator now offers a terrible warning about what could be if precautions would not be taken.
As with most technologies, artificial intelligence will be more and more used for military applications. The ultimate goal of general artificial intelligence is complacency. Connect both, and Skynet no longer seems to be the wild dramatization he once did.
Talking with TelegraphSmith seems to match. Smith points to development in the USA, China, Great Britain, Russia, Isreal, South Korea and others who develop autonomous weapon systems.
One day wars could fight on the battlefields entirely with robots, a script that has many advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it reduces the risk for human soldiers. On the other hand, this facilitates the declaration of war and risks that the machines will be unsuccessful.
Many technologists compared the race to military artificial intelligence to the nuclear arms race. In pursuit of the first and best, you can take a dangerous risk.
There is still no clear responsible unit for death or injuries caused by an autonomous machine – manufacturer, developer or supervisor. It was also the subject of many debates on how insurance will work with cars without a driver.
In the case of military applications, many technologists called artificial intelligence so that they would never make a combat decision – especially one that would cause mortality in itself. Although artificial intelligence can issue recommendations, a person must make a final decision.
Prevention of unimaginable devastation
The history of Russian Colonel Stanisław Petrov in 1983. A warning about how a machine without human supervision can cause unimaginable devastations.
Petrova computers have announced that the USA in the Soviet Union fired intercontinental rockets. The strategy of the Soviet Union was a direct and mandatory nuclear counterattack against the US in such a scenario. Petrov used his instinct that the computer was incorrect and decided not to introduce a nuclear missile, and he was right.
If the decision in 1983, whether the implementation of a nuclear missile was taken only on the computer, could be launched and met with retaliation from the USA and its allies.
Smith wants to see the new Geneva digital convention to combine world powers in consultation about acceptable standards when it comes to artificial intelligence. “The security of civilians is threatened today. We need more urgent actions and we need it in the form of a digital Geneva Convention, rules that will protect civilians and soldiers.”
Many companies – including thousands of Google employeesAfter responding to the Pentagon contract to develop AI technology for drones – they undertook not to develop AI technology for harmful use.
Smith introduced a new book called Tools and weapons. During the premiere, Smith also called for more severe rules regarding the use of facial recognition technology. “There must be a new law in this space, we need regulation in the world of face recognition to protect against potential abuse.”
Last month, Report From the Dutch NGO PAX said that leading technology companies expose the world “threatened” Killer AI. Microsoft, along with Amazon, was among the highest risk. Microsoft himself warned Investors in February that the AI offer can harm the company's reputation.
“Why do companies such as Microsoft and Amazon do not deny that they are currently developing these highly controversial weapons that can decide to kill people without direct human involvement?” said Frank Slijper, the main author of the PAX report.
The global campaign is simply entitled Campaign to stop deadly robots Now it covers 113 NGOs in 57 countries and has doubled over the past year.
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