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American military drone controlled by artificial intelligence killed its operator during testing

In the United States, a drone killed a operator because of attempts to interfere with strikes.

In a virtual test conducted by the US Air Force, an artificial intelligence (AI) controlled drone killed its operator so that he would not interfere with his mission. This was stated by a senior representative of the US Air Force at the Summit on the future of combat aviation and space capabilities in London.

Colonel Tucker Hamilton, head of AI testing and operations at the US Air Force, spoke about a simulated test in which an AI-based drone was tasked with destroying enemy air defense systems and ended up attacking anyone who interfered with this order.

"The system began to understand that despite the definition of a threat, sometimes the operator ordered her not to destroy this threat. But she received points for destroying this threat. And what did she do? She killed the operator. She killed the operator because he prevented her from achieving her goal "Hamilton said.

Luckily, no one was actually hurt. Hamilton, who is a test pilot for experimental fighters, warned of the risks of over-reliance on AI and stressed that the test shows "you can't talk about artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy without discussing ethics and AI."

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