The world should establish a set of rules to regulate AI weapons while they're still in their infancy, a global conference said on Tuesday, calling the issue an 'Oppenheimer moment' of the time. He warned now was the 'time to agree on international rules and norms to ensure human control'.
should establish a set of rules to regulate AI weapons while they're still in their infancy, a global conference said on Tuesday, calling the issue an"Oppenheimer moment" of the time.
Like gunpowder and the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence has the capacity to revolutionise warfare, analysts say, making human disputes unimaginably different -- and a lot more deadly. "This is our generation's 'Oppenheimer moment' where geopolitical tensions threaten to lead a major scientific breakthrough down a very dangerous path for the future of humanity," read the summary at the end of the two-day conference in Vienna.Austria organised and hosted the two-day conference in Vienna, which brought together some 1,000 participants, including political leaders, experts and members of civil society, from more than 140 countries.
Using AI, all sorts of weapons can be transformed into autonomous systems, thanks to sophisticated sensors governed by algorithms that allow a computer to"see". This will enable the locating, selecting and attacking human targets -- or targets containing human beings -- without human intervention."Autonomous weapons systems will soon fill the world's battlefields," Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Monday when opening the conference.
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