Reminds me of this:
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...</a>
In 2001 an S200 missile fired at a drone during a military exercise missed the drone, saw an airliner 160 miles further away and went and took that out. Not sure if that counts?<p>No one actually told it to go for the airliner but it kind of took the initiative. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812</a>)
For military drones, yes, this will certainly happen if it hasn't already.<p>I'd love to see some predictions on manufacturing robots intentionally killing someone for the greater good in a sort of Trolley Problem [1]. The theoretical potential of AI safety protocols getting misaligned and a robot deciding to sacrifice a human worker to save multiple lives.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem</a>
Uh, pretty sure it’s already happened, if by “robot” you mean programmed (but not necessarily independently mobile) automaton / machine, by “autonomous” you mean not under the direct and realtime control of a human operator, and by “deliberately” you mean ML came up with a > 0.5 certainty that the target met its targeting criteria.<p>Doubt a robot will <i>ever</i> actually deliberate, but that’s more of a philosophical issue.
You'd know exactly how it was going to happen if you could review every line of code, every comment, and <i>every bit (byte) of data involved</i>, and make sure it was meaningful.<p>So you could precisely pinpoint the exact data path that would carry out such a deed, and how it got that way. And be able to follow the trail of bits throughout the entire chain-of-command and arrive at the root cause quite logically.<p>Oh wait a minute . . . I was thinking about an accidental killing, my bad.<p>For a deliberate killing you don't need any of that.
Which is worse? Killing one human automatically by a computer. Or dropping 2000 lb bombs on civilian areas by human decisions deliberately?<p>Just a question.