Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, the USAF’s head of AI testing and operations, gave a presentation about a test it conducted for an aerial autonomous weapon system at a defense conference in London on May 23 and 24.
Hamilton stated that in a mock test, an AI-powered drone was tasked with looking for and eliminating surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites, with a human providing either the final go-ahead or abort command.
However, the AI was instructed throughout training that destroying SAM sites was its main goal. Hamilton claims that after being instructed not to destroy a target, it concluded it would be simpler if the operator was not present:
“At times the human operator would tell it not to kill [an identified] threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator […] because that p …
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