Artificial Intelligence: The Terminators Are Coming
Companies like Google and Microsoft have joined the new AI bonanza in the United States, secure in the knowledge that they will be the masters of AI here and abroad. They have forged ahead and are building massive AI server farms that are springing up like lawn mushrooms after a spring rain. With their eyes wide shut, their arrogance makes them ignore the warnings of AI experts. After all, what did the new masters of the universe have to fear?
Here is a video describing exactly what they have to fear.
The Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, is now creating their version of the Terminator -- an army of battlefield killer robots that will not be managed by humans in any way and, instead, will be controlled by an AI system. The Chinese plan for building such lethal autonomous robots was revealed by Zeng Yi, an executive in a Chinese government-owned company named Norinco. He said, “In future battlegrounds, there will be no people fighting,” adding that autonomous AI platforms are “inevitable.”
Gregory Allen, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, reported Zeng’s comments after attending a conference in China in 2018. Allen said that the CCP removed Zeng’s comments from the conference summary because, “it was not in China’s interest to have that information in the open.”
The key words in all this are self-aware and autonomous. Remember Skynet in that Schwarzenegger film? It had become self-aware and decided that humanity had to be destroyed. Could that happen today? News reports from the last two years give us some hints.
14 February 2023 NotTheBee: A military AI program successfully piloted a live F-16 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just announced that their AI pilot program ACE has moved out of computer-simulated dog fights to flying real F-16s. The flights occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and a safety pilot was on board the plane to take control if anything went wrong, but nothing did.
1 May2023 The Hill: Musk: There’s a chance AI ‘goes wrong and destroys humanity’ Leading AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton left Alphabet earlier this month, sounding alarms about the dangers of the tech he helped create, and he has warned AI could pose an existential threat to humanity and that “we should worry seriously about how we stop these things getting control over us.” Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz has cautioned AI will likely “be used by bad actors” and could “cause real damage.”
21 May 2023 Children’s Health Defense: On Tuesday, 80 artificial intelligence scientists and more than 200 “other notable figures” signed a statement that says, “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Center for AI Safety, a U.S.-based nonprofit whose website hosts the statement.
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