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Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator
Jun 02, 2023 1 min, 15 secs

Over the past 24 hours, several news outlets reported a now-retracted story claiming that the US Air Force had run a simulation in which an AI-controlled drone " went rogue" and "killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective."

The story originated in a recap published on the website of the Royal Aeronautical Society that served as an overview of sessions at the Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities Summit that took place last week in London.

This juicy tidbit about an AI system apparently deciding to kill its simulated operator began making the rounds on social media and was soon picked up by major publications like Vice and The Guardian(both of which have since updated their stories with retractions).

Col. Hamilton admits he "misspoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit, and the "rogue AI drone simulation" was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military, based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than an actual USAF real-world simulation, saying: "We've never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realize that this is a plausible outcome."

Still, many experts called out the story as being too pat to begin with, and not just because of technical critiques explaining that a military AI system wouldn't necessarily work that way.

As a BlueSky user named "kilgore trout" humorously put it, "I knew this story was bullsh*t because imagine the military coming out and saying an expensive weapons system they're working on sucks."

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