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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Autonomous AI Pick That Girls' School for an Attack?
Sound outrageous? Maybe not. One of the reasons that the company, Anthropic, refused to not include safeguards in its AI system that would forbid the use of AI autonomous attacks on human-occupied targets was the deadly nature of "drug boat" attacks off Venezuela and in the Pacific. Were those autonomously controlled? So it seems.
Anthropic was insisting that safeguards be part of any military system that used its technology. Trump and the Pentagon refused. Now, they are blocking Anthropic from being used by any government agency or project.
So, who chose that girls' school for a deadly attack? A human being or an autonomous AI targeting system? I'm betting on the latter.
leftstreet
(39,948 posts)Although prior to AI plenty of factories and schools got bombed
But it really makes you wonder now...
MineralMan
(151,051 posts)How is that done? It's a question worth asking. AI is getting used for all sorts of things, and making choices from multiple options is one of the things AI is being used for in many, many situations.
So, I don't know. I have no way to know. Someone does, though. So, we should be asking, I think.
usonian
(24,589 posts)
Oddest thing to me
Sam Altman tweets:
AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
WTF? Didn't Anthropic insist on the same?
Or maybe the "tribute" wasn't sufficient???
I'd bet a few bucks that was the case.
INSUFFICIENT BRIBE.

EdmondDantes_
(1,643 posts)All he seems to care about is money and being the "hero" that brings us AI, so whatever furthers that is what he will do.
ananda
(34,762 posts)I've been asking myself all morning, why strike
a girl's school?
Klarkashton
(5,152 posts)MineralMan
(151,051 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,076 posts)to decide on the targets is a way to create plausible deniability for missions gone wrong.
It should be clear from the start that he must take responsibility for everything that occurs.
MineralMan
(151,051 posts)That's the problem with letting AI make critical decisions and then act on its own. That's how Teslas run over wheelchairs. Not in the algorithm, so they don't exist. Bang!
Traildogbob
(12,903 posts)Must have been a threat for the still raping rich Epstein monsters that never stopped rapping after they killed his voice.
EX500rider
(12,346 posts)They know their military isn't stopping US/IDF attacks so world wide public opinion is one of their other options.
MineralMan
(151,051 posts)I'm simply interpreting the news we have, based on what we know about all of this.
But, no, I don't know if there was a girls' school or and attack on one.