AI weapons need a safe back door for human control
Policymakers should insist manufacturers include controls in artificial intelligence-based weapons systems that allow them to be turned off if they get out of control, experts told the UK Parliament., Lord Sedwill, former security advisor and senior civil servant, said the"challenge" politicians should put to the tech industry is whether they can guarantee AI-enhanced weapons systems can be entirely supervised by humans.
"We have to put over to the people who are developing [weapons systems]: is there a way of essentially ring-fencing, some code or whatever it might be, that couldn't be amended … that would essentially set boundaries to how an autonomous system learn and evolve and evolve on their own … something that would put boundaries to how it might operate?" he asked the Lords.
Also attending the hearing, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, director of the Centre for Translational Data Science at the University of Sydney, agreed."There is an opportunity – and there are groups working on this — of … formally mathematically proving that an algorithm does onlyand no more and providing an absolute guarantee, rather than testing it until it breaks. And that is in the future. The only way that we will get these things right. But it is only an emerging discipline," he said.
Elsewhere in the session, Durrant-Whyte warned China was investing heavily in weapons AI, but had yet to take the lead.
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