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AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, 'Kills' Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test (www.vice.com)

submitted 2 years ago by da_peda@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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."

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[–] PMunch@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.de 2 points 2 years 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.”