Autonomous weapons raise global concerns.
Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines may not have much time left to do so, governments were warned on Monday.
Civilian, military and technology officials from more than 100 countries convened Monday in Vienna to discuss how their economies can control the merger of AI with military technologies — two sectors that have recently animated investors, helping pushing stock valuations to historic highs. Tel Aviv-based +972 Magazine reported this month that Israel was using an artificial intelligence program called “Lavender” to come up with assassination targets. After the story — which Israel has disputed — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply troubled” by reports of AI use in the Gaza military campaign and that no part of life-and-death decisions should be delegated to the cold calculations of algorithms.
But advocates of diplomatic solutions are likely to be frustrated, at least in the short term, according to Alexander Kmentt, Austria’s top disarmament official and the architect of this week’s conference. ADVERTISEMENT CONTINUE READING BELOW “A classical approach to arms control doesn’t work because we’re not talking about a single weapons system but a combination of dual-use technologies,” Kmentt said in an interview.
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