The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

https://lemmy.world/post/8715340

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans - Lemmy.World

If you program an AI drone to recognize ambulances and medics and forbid them from blowing them up, then you can be sure that they will never intentionally blow them up. That alone makes them superior to having a Mk. I Human holding the trigger, IMO.

Right, because self-driving cars have been great at correctly identifying things.

And those LLMs have been following their rules to the letter.

We really need to let go of our projected concepts of AI in the face of what’s actually been arriving. And one of those things we need to let go of is the concept of immutable rule following and accuracy.

In any real world deployment of killer drones, there’s going to be an acceptable false positive rate that’s been signed off on.

We are talking about developing technology, not existing tech.

And actually, machines have become quite adept at image recognition. For some things they're already better at it than we are.