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EVIL AI War robots will ‘kill civilians’ unless we make AI less sexist and hateful, experts warn

January 18th, 2023

These intelligent armed forces have been criticized by those afraid of dangerous advancing technologies already underway.

Robot weaponry is the way of the future, but concern from civilians is increasing as the inventions come closer to reality.

The quickly-advancing world needs autonomous weapons because the performance of robots beats that of humans in many skill-based tasks, like poker or chess, and even sees more accuracy in things like speech recognition, Channel News Asia reported.

Because global superpowers are constantly in an arms race of advancing weapons, the highest tech possible in military advancements is necessary to keep up.

However, the growing concern over artificial intelligence is valid, as even non-weaponized AI picks up hate based on human behavior.

If a robot has been programmed to take out a tank full of enemies via satellite, there is nothing to say its autonomous weapon system couldn't malfunction and target a car of civilians passing legally through military grounds.

An autonomous weapon system "once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator," according to the U.S. Department of Defence.

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The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots highlights several problems with these army innovations, including a perceived lack of accountability, and the dehumanization of ending human life.

Some of these innovations are already in play; drone computers and new-age missiles work on algorithms, finding targets with better precision than human minds or hands are able to, Channel News Asia said.

Take the Iron Dome in Israel, for example.

It can fire at targets without permission from a human being, and while it can kill civilians on accident, it has shown consistently reliable results in protecting them instead, according to the outlet.

In the Ukraine war, robot-powered kamikaze drones have already been used to strike and kill.

When the sexist, racist, and other hateful algorithmic learning results that have come with AI tests at Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology are taken into account, it is scary to think about weapons with automatic killing powers.

Governments can easily find their way around restrictive wording, leaving any chance of halting or banning these killer robots.

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