I just came across this interesting open letter with a lot of signatories, famous people included.
They basically demand that the world should do something against the development and use of AI weapons similar to the restrictions imposed on nuclear, bio and chemical weapons in international treaties. I think it will be interesting to see whether it gets any reaction and I am also interested to see what people think.
http://futureoflife.org/AI/open_lett...nomous_weapons
I think this is a very interesting point, especially since it seems hard to prevent such technology from being rather insecure.The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting. If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. Unlike nuclear weapons, they require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials, so they will become ubiquitous and cheap for all significant military powers to mass-produce. It will only be a matter of time until they appear on the black market and in the hands of terrorists, dictators wishing to better control their populace, warlords wishing to perpetrate ethnic cleansing, etc. Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group. We therefore believe that a military AI arms race would not be beneficial for humanity.
You can probably find the ED-209 video yourselves (contains violence).
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