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World powers in rush to get killer robots on battlefield in AI arms race, as concerns grow they can turn on humans:

Military forces around the globe are in a covert arms race to develop terrifying new AI weaponry, a new documentary exploring the future of artificial intelligence in battle reveals.

“World leaders in Russia and China, people in the US military have said, whoever gets the advantage in AI is going to have an overwhelming technical advantage in war,” Jesse Sweet, director of “UNKNOWN: Killer Robots, premiering Monday on Netflix, told The Post.

“This revolution is happening now, but I think our awareness [is] lagging behind,” Sweet,soldier an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and producer, warned. “Hopefully, it doesn’t think a mushroom cloud to make us realize, ‘Oh man, this is a pretty potent tool.’”

Weapons-grade robots and drones being utilized in combat isn’t new, the documentary shows. But AI software is, and it’s enhancing — in some cases, to the extreme — the existing hardware, which has been modernizing warfare for the better part of a decade.

Now, experts say, developments in AI have pushed us to a point where global forces now have no choice but to rethink military strategy — from the ground up.

“It’s realistic to expect that AI will be piloting an F-16 and will not be that far out,” Nathan Michael, Chief Technology Officer of Shield AI, a company whose mission is “building the world’s best AI pilot,” says in the episode.

However, the filmmakers express concern — like many working in the field of AI — over rapid robotic militarization, essentially warning that we don’t truly comprehend what we’re creating.

“The way these algorithms are processing information, the people who programmed them can’t even fully understand the decisions they’re making,” Sweet said. “It gets moving so fast that even identifying things like, ‘Is it supposed to kill that person or not kill that person?’ [It’s] this huge conundrum.” —>READ MORE HERE

World powers in rush to get killer robots on battlefield in AI arms race – despite fears

Almost 80 years ago, the face of warfare changed when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. As technology has advanced, a new player is waiting to enter the battlefield in the form of artificial intelligence, with military forces around the globe now racing to get AI weaponry into battle.

There’s a covert arms race underway as military forces across the world compete to develop terrifying AI weaponry, according to a new documentary exploring what the future of AI in the battlefield looks like.

UNKNOWN: Killer Robots is set to premiere on Netflix on Monday, July 10. Director Jesse Sweet told the New York Post: “World leaders in Russia and China, people in the US military have said, whoever gets the advantage on AI is going to have an overwhelming technical advantage in war.”

He continued: “This revolution is happening now, but I think our awareness [is] lagging being. Hopefully it doesn’t [take] a mushroom cloud to make us realise, ‘Oh man, this is a pretty potent tool’.”

The use of weapons-grade robots and drones in combat isn’t a new phenomenon, the documentary shows. However, AI software is and it’s enhancing the existing hardware which has been modernising warfare techniques for the best part of a decade.

Experts are now warning that AI developments have pushed us to a point where global forces have no choice but to completely overhaul and rethink their military strategy.

“It’s realistic to expect that AI will be piloting an F-16 and will not be that far out,” said Nathan Mchiael, Chief Technology Officer at Shield AI said in the episode. The company is on a mission, hoping they’ll be capable of “building the world’s best AI pilot”.

But filmmakers in the new documentary show their concern, shared by many working on AI, over rapid robotic militarisation. They essentially echo the voices of many tech experts in the field – that we don’t truly understand just what we’re creating.

“The way these algorithms are processing information, the people who programmed them can’t even fully understand the decisions they’re making,” explained Jesse. “It gets moving so fast that even identifying things like ‘is it supposed to kill that person or not kill that person?’ [It’s] this huge conundrum.” —>READ MORE HERE

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