[ExI] AI Warfare Is Already Here

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] AI Warfare Is Already Here

On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 12:47, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Y'know?  Here's an awful thought: I wish that an AI in actual combat makes
a mistake and kills civilians.  Maybe that will be the spur to quit the damn
things until we know a lot more than we do now.  Never mind that a human
makes the final decision - people make mistakes too.  I am assured by
history that military minds will rush new tech into use before we are ready
for it.
>
> Maybe I don't actually wish it, but it WILL happen - and then we'll see.
bill w
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>...In war, it is always far more civilians that die than soldiers.
Look at Gaza, Hiroshima, Dresden or the famines and deprivation that follow
war.
I don't see that a few civilian deaths (collateral damage) will stop the
military deploying AI weaponry.

BillK

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Civilian deaths might drive the military in deploying AI weaponry: they will
argue that AI is better at distinguishing and avoiding collateral damage
than humans.  That argument may compel them to take humans out of the loop:
we are too slow and influenced too much by fear, panic, hatred, etc.

Regarding the notion to quit the damn things until we know more than we do
now, the brass would argue that deployment and battlefield testing is the
path to knowing more than we do now.

spike