Ukraine · Iran · The Guardian Technology
Zee Talat, an academic specialising in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh’s school of informatics
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With drones being deployed in huge numbers in the Ukraine war and AI being used to assist bombing missions in the Iran conflict, there is an expectation among some observers that weapons will have to operate with increased operational autonomy, which means they will need something approximating a moral framework.
Key facts
- Andrew Rogoyski, of the Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey, says AI systems have become much more sophisticated since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022, as the emergence
- More than 100 startups across the US and Europe are now building drones and drone software platforms
- Programming morality into drones is problematic, according to Jessica Dorsey, an assistant professor of international law at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
- Jon Gruen, the chief executive of Fortem Technologies, which builds systems to defend against drones, has a different view
Summary
Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? Last year Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft’s AI arm and a co-founder of the UK-based DeepMind, was unequivocal about the issue of machines making moral decisions. David Omand, the former head of the UK spy agency, GCHQ, has told the Guardian he believes AI can create a “moral” configuration for unmanned weapons, while the UK armed forces minister, Al Carns, told the Financial Times recently there must be an option to “take the human out of the loop” in decision-making.