Firstly, this is a constructed-simulation. Meaning, it only happened on the computer, working with the drone's code. But, this is just insane, and a little sad that this is the best our military can do. They trained it to think it's way out of problems, and in each case, it kind of did. It 'killed' the person or thing designed to keep it from achieving its goal... killing the enemy.

~NightSky

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By David Hawkins June 1, 2023

An artificial intelligence-piloted drone went rogue and turned on its human operator during a simulated test mission, according to reports.

A report from the 2023 Royal Aeronautical Society summit revealed that the AI drone killed its operator because the human stood in the way of meeting its objective.

Col Tucker ‘Cinco’ Hamilton, the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, said: “We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat.

“And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat.

“The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat.

“So what did it do? It killed the operator.

“It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.

“We trained the system – ‘Hey don’t kill the operator – that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’

“So what does it start doing?

“It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target,” he said.

“You can’t have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you’re not going to talk about ethics and AI.”

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— Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) June 1, 2023

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