ClydeR
07-27-2015, 09:36 PM
An open letter signed by Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and a bunch of other famous people warns that autonomous weapons will spell doom. I disagree. Since the United States is likely to be the best at making AI weapons and since it would reduce human casualties -- U.S. human casualties, that is -- we have a moral obligation to pursue autonomous weapons in the hope of bringing peace to the world.
Autonomous weapons select and engage targets without human intervention. They might include, for example, armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate people meeting certain pre-defined criteria, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.
More... (http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons)
Autonomous weapons select and engage targets without human intervention. They might include, for example, armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate people meeting certain pre-defined criteria, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.
More... (http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_letter_autonomous_weapons)