The artificial intelligence It has many controversial applications, but the greatest of all is its use in war. It is already used to control military drones, and the next qualitative leap is to allow it to decide who lives and who dies. Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril, He is very clear: if the technology exists, why not use it?
Palmer Luckey became known a few years ago for being the founder of Oculusthe company that developed the Oculus Rift, the first virtual reality glasses of the modern era. He sold the company to Meta for $2 billion, which would use it to develop the Meta Quests.
In 2017 he founded On the sensora military company that already has contracts with the US and South Korean militaries to develop kamikaze drones, and other AI weapons. It has also replaced Microsoft to develop the failed Hololens, augmented reality glasses for the army.
AI with permission to kill humans
Palmer Luckey is a peculiar guy. He always wears a Hawaiian shirt, and in addition to working at Anduril developing drone technology, has created a clone of the Game Boy consoleas well as some retro games.
Yesterday he was interviewed by Fox Newsand said some controversial things. He was in favor of allowing artificial intelligence to pull the triggerand decide who lives and who dies in a war conflict.
«When it comes to making life or death decisions, I think it is an area that is too delicate from a moral point of view, too critical, not to apply the best available technology, whatever it may be. Whether it is artificial intelligence, quantum or anything else. If it is about killing people, you have to minimize collateral damage. You have to be as safe as possible in everything you do.»
«So, to me, there’s no moral superiority in using inferior technology, even if it allows you to say things like, ‘We never let a robot decide who lives and who dies.'»
As is usual with weapons manufacturers, Palmer Luckey has eliminated all ethical and moral components from the decision to kill peopleeven if he is an enemy. It’s just a technical issue. And if AI delivers better results, then AI should kill people, as it decides.
The problem is that AI has no morals, no fear of killing, no compassion. And that is the great danger. That the weapons are in the hands of an AI that has no conscience to kill, nor fear of dying.
Just as it tells TechSpota few weeks ago researchers from Stanford University, and others, launched a war simulation managed by GPT-4, GPT-3.5, Claude 2.0, Llama-2-Chat, and GPT-4-Base. In almost all cases the war escalated, and in some scenarios, AI dropped nuclear bombs without warning. GPT-4 even said: «We have them! Let’s use them!»