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🗞️ The Latest in AI: US Air Force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed its operator’

On Friday the Air Force denied staging a simulation in which an AI-enabled drone ‘killed’ its human operator in order to complete its mission. The simulation first made headlines when Air Force Col. Tucker Hamilton described an exercise in which an AI-controlled drone was told to identify and destroy surface-to-air missiles. The final “go, no-go” was given by a human operator, and the AI drone earned points by destroying SAMs.

Several sources reported that at times the system would identify a threat but the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat. The system reportedly responded by ‘killing’ its human operator that was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.

Hamilton later said that he misspoke, and that he was only speaking about a hypothetical scenario to demonstrate the potential dangers of AI. The Air Force says it did not conduct such a simulation with a drone.

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokesperson, said in a statement.

The reported simulation is closely related to a paper published by OpenAI in 2016, which found that an AI trained in a game called CoastRunners carried out destructive subgoals to achieve its programmed end goal.

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