by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
The Biden regime has unveiled new ‘killer AI’ robots that can make autonomous choices on whether to kill human targets, according to a disturbing report by the New York Times.
Countries such as the United States, China, and Israel are developing lethal AI that will be given the power to kill citizens without the need for human approval, the Times noted.
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According to critics, the deployment of “killer robots” would be a dystopian development, entrusting life and death battlefield choices to soulless machines with zero empathy.
Thepoliticsbrief.com reports: Several countries are pressing the United Nations for a binding resolution prohibiting the use of AI killer drones, however, the US is among a handful of nations, including Russia, Australia, and Israel, who are opposing any such move.
“This is really one of the most significant inflection points for humanity,” Alexander Kmentt, Austria’s chief negotiator on the issue, said in an interview. “What’s the role of human beings in the use of force — it’s an absolutely fundamental security issue, a legal issue and an ethical issue.”
According to a notice released earlier this year, the Pentagon is working on deploying swarms of thousands of AI-enabled drones.
In an August address, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks stated that technologies such as AI-controlled drone swarms will allow the US to balance China’s manpower’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) numerical superiority in weapons and manpower.
“We’ll counter the PLA’s mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat,” she said, Reuters reported.
The Air Force secretary, Frank Kendall, told The Times that AI drones will need to have the capability to make lethal decisions while under human supervision.
“Individual decisions versus not doing individual decisions is the difference between winning and losing — and you’re not going to lose,” he said.
“I don’t think people we would be up against would do that, and it would give them a huge advantage if we put that limitation on ourselves.”
According to The New Scientist, Ukraine utilized AI-controlled drones in its conflict with Russia in October, although it is unknown if the drones caused human casualties.
Stuart Russell, a senior AI scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and others will screen the video on Monday during an event held by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons.
The campaign issues a warning: “Machines don’t see us as people, just another piece of code to be processed and sorted. From smart homes to the use of robot dogs by police enforcement, A.I. technologies and automated decision-making are now playing a significant role in our lives. At the extreme end of the spectrum of automation lie killer robots.”
“Killer robots don’t just appear – we create them,” the campaign added. “If we allow this dehumanisation we will struggle to protect ourselves from machine decision-making in other areas of our lives. We need to prohibit autonomous weapons systems that would be used against people, to prevent this slide to digital dehumanisation.”
The creation and employment of autonomous weapons, such as drones, tanks, and automatic machine guns, would be disastrous for human security and freedom, according to Russell, and the window for halting their development is rapidly closing.
“The technology illustrated in the film is simply an integration of existing capabilities. It is not science fiction. In fact, it is easier to achieve than self-driving cars, which require far higher standards of performance,” Russell said.
The Campaign to Ban Killer Robots also points out that because AI-powered machines are “relatively cheap to manufacture, critics fear that autonomous weapons could be mass produced and fall into the hands of rogue nations or terrorists who could use them to suppress populations and wreak havoc, as the movie portrays.”
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