Maybe we won’t ever have to worry about Chinese experiments in artificial intelligence; maybe our own military experiments in artificial intelligence will get here first and create their own problems. At a recent Royal Aeronautical Society defense conference, a U.S. Air Force colonel described a simulated test in which an AI-enabled drone “decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation.”
