Claims that a US Air Force-trained artificial intelligence (AI) powered drone “attacked” its human operators and communication towers when it was supposed to target enemy weapons have been shared widely on social media.
One tweet, shared hundreds of times, says: “The Air Force trained an AI drone to destroy SAM [surface-to-air-missile] sites.
“Human operators sometimes told the drone to stop.
“The AI then started attacking the human operators.
“So then it was trained to not attack humans.
“It started attacking comm towers so humans couldn’t tell it to stop.”
This text is accompanied by a screenshot, which gives a further description of how in a simulation the trained AI drone had “killed the operator because that person was keeping it from…
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