2024/02/24

Beware the Swarming AI Killer Robots: Security Scholar Warns of Emergent Behaviour in Autonomous Military Systems

“Neither side in the debate on ‘killer robots’ has addressed the most potentially unnerving aspect of using them in battle: sooner or later, they’ll be able to communicate with each other without human intervention.”
– World security scholar and author Michael Klare, on the dangers of emergent behaviour in autonomous weaponry as DARPA expands efforts to create military AI systems capable of true swarming. “Autonomous weapons might jointly elect to adopt combat tactics none of the individual devices were programmed to perform”, warns Klare, “conceivably engaging in acts unintended and unforeseen by their human commanders.”
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