Should there be an "ALL OFF" button to instantly shut down all these new AI Defense bots that the Military in the US want to build and deploy in the thousands?
America’s military leaders are racing to deploy thousands of autonomous weapons and an AI-powered air monitoring system for Washington D.C.
The Pentagon Is Accelerating AI and Autonomous Technology
America’s military leaders are racing to deploy thousands of autonomous weapons and an AI-powered air monitoring system for Washington D.C.
How is it that when it comes to reckless ideas and notions Congress takes millions of years and the Pentagon takes no more than three business days to implement?
This is one of those classical sci-fi apocalypse ideas, where humans make autonomous war machines they can't turn off, and the machines outlive the humans and continue the war for them.
Most military networks are closed circuit by design. I’m not sure how this could be implemented without also allowing back doors to be exploited. You wouldn’t want someone to be able to turn off your defenses as they begin an attack, for example.
There are a number of ways to do it. You can transmit a one-time code to the device that you set up right beforehand. No one's going to be able to guess your 1024 character one-time password.
You can even protect the password entry program itself with port knocking. If the right ports aren't accessed in the right sequence, the enemy doesn't even get a chance to try their passwords.
Every server is on the Internet 99.999% of the time. They are constantly being tested. The right cybersecurity tools are available now.
Yeah, they don't. Nuclear systems are for the most part closed sourced and built on DOS level hardware. Most of that shit can't connect to the internet even if they wanted it to. The system you're thinking about is radio waves between people talking.
The department of defense was hacked just a few years ago, suck a button would have to have access to an internet. Meaning anyone could get to it and shut off the drones and such
They'll just murder a bunch of people and then be turned off after having been shown to be ineffective too dangerous.
It's not like AI is reliable at this point. Way too many people are actively ignoring experts pointing this fact out and instead obsessing over Skynet or w/e made up sci-fi BS.
Rather than be used for war, they'll be used for threats of violence and propaganda. It's not a new problem. It's just a new version of that same problem.
Rather than be used for war, they’ll be used for threats of violence and propaganda
Surveillance is the word you're looking for. Take all those NSA pipelines and run them through an AI and BAM, you've got your "terrorists".
AI will be downfall of our technological society, but not because of killer robots and malevolent systems. It's going to make everyone completely and utterly incompetent at everything in life.
It should be noted that individuals at the forefront of AI research have a direct bias against saying AI is dangerous. It's their job, and saying anything which presents this research as dangerous could halt funding, and put them out of a job. It's also their passion, though, so it's an even bigger deal for them.
We have also seen individuals who have exited AI research calling for more regulation and ethics requirements. At the same time we are seeing AI ethics departments dismantled. These should stand out as red flags.
Autonomous drones are actively being used to bomb villages in Papua New Guinea. The idea that this kind of tech is "only going to be used for threats of violence and propaganda" is already outdated. It's being used today, and the US just plans to also adopt the tech itself.
That's called a bug - aka what it's called when a program behaves unexpectedly and against design intentions.
That's not going rogue, that's doing what it was programmed to do.
By your standards you'd also have to consider WW2 acoustic homing torpedos as rogue AI because they might home in on the ship that fired them.
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A followup thought: the only real question is whether they can realistically test and refine these systems enough to trust them to carry out attacks autonomously without serious errors.vIm gonna guess no, but they'll use them anyway.
Sounds like the beginnings of the plot to Horizon Dawn. Can’t have it both ways, either it’s a secure closed system with no way to stop it if it goes rogue or it has safety’s built in but then those could be exploited.
There is also a danger that the kill switch command could be leaked to the Russians or the Chinese who would use it to shut down the USA's defenses just before a full scale invasion of a now defenseless USA.
and an AI-powered air monitoring system for Washington D.C.
This is the most troubling to me. They're entrenching themselves. They already wrapped razor wire and concrete walls around the white house. Now they're deploying military assets on US soil.
There really would be no way to have an interface that shuts it down, that an AI wouldn't be able to compromise. Though I imagine the military will set up a plan to blow up it's connections to power and the internet should it go rouge.
People use the term AI too loosely. We don't actually have artificial intelligence. We have neural networks that can perform tasks based on training data, but it's not actually intelligent by any means. That said, fully autonomous systems have existed for decades already. Look up CIWS or CRAM.