They will try and keep AI
weapons under human control, help AI systems learn what humans want, and develop an ethical system for AI.
Not exact matches
The U.S. Department of Defense's Directive on Autonomous
Weapons permits
under - secretaries of defense, in certain cases, to bend its rule that
weapons remain
under meaningful
human control.
As
weapons increasingly rely on AI, this project provides an interdisciplinary framework for how such
weapons systems might be
under meaningful
human control.
Prof. Sharkey has long expressed concern that autonomous
weapons systems can not be guaranteed to predictably comply with international law and stresses that the
weapons must remain
under human control.
Despite their different backgrounds, all the participants agreed that autonomous
weapons systems pose dangers and require swift diplomatic action to negotiate a legally - binding instrument that draws the line at
weapons not
under human control.
Under a section elaborating on «
control» (page 5), the authors note that «for certain types of safety - critical AI systems — especially vehicles and
weapons platforms — it may be desirable to retain some form of meaningful
human control, whether this means a
human in the loop, on the loop, or some other protocol.»
«Only through objective scientific analysis of new versions of current systems on the cusp of autonomy and their potential extensions can we can determine if such systems are
under appropriate
human control» said Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, a group of scientific experts that independently assess
weapons technologies to determine where they lie on the spectrum of autonomy.
On 6 January 2017, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official responded to a December 2016 letter sent by Article 36 and six other UK members of Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that called on the government to establish national policy specifying «the measures necessary to ensure that
weapons remain
under human control in the future.»
The 58 - page Keeping
Control report by Daan Kayser provides an overview of the positions of European states on lethal autonomous weapon systems, including on the call for a ban and on how to ensure weapons systems remain under meaningful human c
Control report by Daan Kayser provides an overview of the positions of European states on lethal autonomous
weapon systems, including on the call for a ban and on how to ensure
weapons systems remain
under meaningful
human controlcontrol.
The concept is not about finding or building a «better» or «safer» autonomous
weapon system but about drawing the line to prohibit systems that do not come
under human control.