Is the AI Takeover Imminent?

Last week, a U.S. Air Force colonel addressed a military technology summit in the U.K. and said that during a training exercise, an AI drone turned on its operator and “killed” him in the simulation. When the remote operator told the drone not to attack a designated target, it disobeyed and actually attempted to attack the control tower. Again, this was not even a real operation – just a simulation. But the comments caused quite a stir about the potential dangers of AI-operated weapons and military tech, and now the Air Force is trying to play cleanup. As reported by Fox News: “The U.S. Air Force on Friday is pushing back on comments an official made last week in which he claimed that a simulation of an artificial intelligence-enabled drone tasked with destroying surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites turned against and attacked its human user, saying the remarks “were taken out of context and were meant to be anecdotal.” U.S. Air Force Colonel Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton made the comments during the Futu