The Pentagon Is Building a ‘Self-aware’ Killer Robot Army Fueled by Social Media.
This sounds like an Onion headline.
It isn't.
It's the headline of Nafeez Ahmed's 5-12-16 Insurgence Intelligence article entitled "The Pentagon Is Building a 'Self-aware' Killer Robot Army Fueled by Social Media." Here are the first few paragraphs:
"An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review,
reveals that the US military plans to create artificially intelligent
(AI) autonomous weapon systems, which will use predictive social media
analytics to make decisions on lethal force with minimal human
involvement.
"Despite
official insistence that humans will retain a 'meaningful' degree of
control over autonomous weapon systems, this and other Pentagon
documents dated from 2015 to 2016 confirm that US military planners are
already developing technologies designed to enable swarms of 'self-aware' interconnected robots to design and execute kill operations
against robot-selected targets.
"More
alarmingly, the documents show that the DoD believes that within just
fifteen years, it will be feasible for mission planning, target
selection and the deployment of lethal force to be delegated entirely to
autonomous weapon systems in air, land and sea. The Pentagon expects AI
threat assessments for these autonomous operations to be derived from
massive data sets including blogs, websites, and multimedia posts on
social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
"The
raft of Pentagon documentation flatly contradicts Deputy Defense
Secretary Robert Work’s denial that the DoD is planning to develop
killer robots."
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