A senior government official said the pilots were instructed to prevent them from interfering with their missions, but the Air Force denies any such simulations took place.
Friday 02 June 2023 11:38 UK
An AI-controlled drone “killed” a human pilot in a mock test allegedly conducted by the US military, although the US military denies that such a test took place.
Air Force Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said at a Future Combat Aerospace Capabilities Summit in London that he had instructed pilots to stop it from sabotaging its mission.
“We were training in simulations to identify and target SAMs. [surface-to-air missile] threat. Then the operator would say, ‘Yes, we’re going to kill that threat,'” he said.
“The system began to realize that sometimes, while identifying a threat, a human operator would tell the human operator not to kill the threat. So what did the system do?
No real person was harmed.
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he continued. “We’ve trained the system to say, ‘Hey, don’t kill the operator. That’s bad. If you do that, you lose points.’ So what does the system start with? will begin destroying the communication towers it has installed, which are used to communicate with drones to stop them from killing their targets.”
“I can’t talk about it artificial intelligenceIf we’re not going to talk about ethics and AI, it’s intelligence, machine learning and autonomy,” he added.
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His remarks appeared in a blog post by writers from the Royal Aeronautical Society, which hosted a two-day summit last month.
The U.S. Air Force, in a statement to insiders, denied any such virtual testing took place.
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“The Air Force Department has not conducted such AI drone simulations and remains committed to the ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” spokesperson Ann Stefanek said.
“The Colonel’s comments were taken out of context and appear to have been intended to be anecdotal.”
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