Ohhh, now this AI drone story just got interesting.
Upper levels have now intervened to claim that the USAF has never run such a simulation, and that the initial report came from Col Hamilton, who "misspoke". He was supposedly only talking about a thought experiment.
But look at the language of Hamilton's original depiction of the event.
That's not a thought experiment.
This is the USAF managing a PR crisis. Which worries me way more than a simulated event going awry.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test
@MLClark No, but even taken at face value the story describes something that happened in A SIMULATION. No operator was harmed in the testing of this AI, contrary to clickbait headlines.
A simulation is where you WANT your AI to misbehave.
I said that it was a simulation.
The fact that they're denying they even ran a simulation is what's giving me pause.
@MLClark Yes you did. Point was that in earlier pieces I saw, that was buried. Social media, and increasingly other media, thrive on this sort of pernicious scaremongering.
Anyway, thanks for the new developments – I needed an update. Looking into it further.
I get it. The frustration at mainstream media / clickbait has to find an outlet somewhere.
The quest to build better comes from having better conversations with one another, even when frustrated by the surrounding dreck. Glad to have chatted with you about this one. Hope your further reading into this and related topics rewards!