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The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by geese_feces@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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The US is among countries arguing against new laws to regulate AI-controlled killer drones.

The US, China, and others are developing so-called "killer robots."

Critics are concerned about the development of machines that can decide to take human lives.

In a speech in August, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, said technology like AI-controlled drone swarms would enable the US to offset China's People's Liberation Army's (PLA) numerical advantage in weapons and people.

"We'll counter the PLA's mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat," she said, reported Reuters.

Frank Kendall, the Air Force secretary, told The Times that AI drones will need to have the capability to make lethal decisions while under human supervision.

"Individual decisions versus not doing individual decisions is the difference between winning and losing — and you're not going to lose," he said.

"I don't think people we would be up against would do that, and it would give them a huge advantage if we put that limitation on ourselves."

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[–] THC@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"I don't think people we would be up against would do that, and it would give them a huge advantage if we put that limitation on ourselves."

This article is terribly written so I'm not sure how to interpret this statement, which is not given much context. Are they admitting that China wouldn't use autonomous murder bots? So they're basically saying "those Chinese won't let computers kill with reckless abandon but we sure as shit will!"

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's saying that our adversaries would not put that limitation on themselves, it's a roundabout way of implying that they would indeed use them.

[–] THC@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay yeah you're right. I was getting tripped up by the quote before it saying this would allow them to counter the PLA's numbers advantage because to me it implies that they think the PLA wouldn't use autonomous killing.