Reminds me of this: ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

Didn't this already happen? https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-sugge...

Did HN automatically strip "Prediction -" from the title? At a glance it makes it look like the author is working on making it happen

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?

No one actually told it to go for the airliner but it kind of took the initiative. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812)

For military drones, yes, this will certainly happen if it hasn't already.

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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

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.

Doubt a robot will ever actually deliberate, but that’s more of a philosophical issue.

This is already happening in Ukraine.

Ya but a tons of people are killed by humans every day so it's fine.

You'd know exactly how it was going to happen if you could review every line of code, every comment, and every bit (byte) of data involved, and make sure it was meaningful.

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.

Oh wait a minute . . . I was thinking about an accidental killing, my bad.

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?

Just a question.