{"id":43714,"date":"2019-02-11T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43714"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:06:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:06:31","slug":"china-programming-ai-drones-to-autonomously-murder-without-human-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43714","title":{"rendered":"China Programming AI Drones To Autonomously Murder Without Human Input"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China Programming AI Drones To Autonomously Murder\u00a0Without Human Input<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

China is programming new autonomous AI-powered drones to conduct “targeted military strikes” without a human making the decision to fire, according to a new repor<\/a>t by the Center for a New American Security, a US national security think tank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Authored by Gregory C. Allen<\/a>, the report is a comprehensive look at Chinese AI (and American officials’ underestimation of it). Allen notes that drones are becoming increasingly automated as designers integrate sophisticated AI systems into the decision-making processes for next-generation reconnaissance and weapons systems. Before writing his analysis, Allen participated in a series of meetings “with high-ranking Chinese officials in China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaders of China\u2019s military AI research organizations, government think tank experts, and corporate executives at Chinese AI companies.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Though many current generation drones are primarily remotely operated, Chinese officials generally expect drones and military robotics to feature ever more extensive AI and autonomous capabilities in the future<\/strong>,” writes Allen. “Chinese weapons manufacturers already are selling armed drones with significant amounts of combat autonomy.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The specific scenario described to me [by one anonymous Chinese official] is unintentional escalation related to the use of a drone<\/strong>,” said Allen in a Wednesday report by The Verge<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Allen explains, the operation of drones both large and small has become increasingly automated<\/a> in recent years. In the US, drones are capable of basic autopilot, performing simple tasks like flying in a circle around a target. But China is being \u201cmore aggressive about introducing greater levels of autonomy closer to lethal use of force,\u201d<\/strong> he says. One example is the Blowfish A2 drone<\/strong>, which China exports internationally and which, says Allen, is advertised as being capable of \u201cfull autonomy all the way up to targeted strikes.<\/strong>\u201d –The Verge<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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China Programming AI Drones To Autonomously Murder\u00a0Without Human Input China is programming new autonomous AI-powered drones to conduct “targeted military strikes” without a human making the decision to fire, according to a new report by the Center for a New American Security, a US national security think tank.  Authored by Gregory C. Allen, the report is a comprehensive look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13681],"class_list":["post-43714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43714\/revisions\/43715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}