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> I would expect the people who wrote the AI would impose on it constraints to avoid this The devil is in the details. What if the AI decides that the course
by Teever 6y ago
> I would expect the people who wrote the AI would impose on it constraints to avoid this
The devil is in the details.
What if the AI decides that the course of action that leads to the desired outcome of winning the conflict is to kill civilians but it is also aware that outright killing civilians is against the law or will be ignored by the decision making human so it instead decides to recommend a series of strikes that indirectly lead to a large famine which results in the death of the civilians and winning the conflict?
Who is to blame there? Is this outcome desirable?
- mpalmer 6y agoThey sort of address this - "To be actually a useful tool to military commanders, you want an AI which [...] gives them a reasoned opinion on which of the various options they are considering is most advisable." With that (far more sophisticated) AI system, leadership could just de-prioritize options with excessive risk of civilian casualty.
- skissane 6y agoThe other day I was looking at this – http://www.datalex.org/ http://www.datalex.org/ [0] – presented with a situation, it asks you questions about it, and then generates a legal opinion on your situation. It shows all its reasoning (in natural language) to arrive at that legal opinion. That's the same basic thing a human advisor does – if you get a formal legal opinion from a lawyer, it doesn't just give you the conclusion, it also explains the arguments and reasoning and considerations it used to arrive at that conclusion. So I don't see why a strategic military advice platform couldn't do the same basic thing. [0] Here's a working example: http://beta.datalex.org/app/?rulebase=http://austlii.community/wiki/DataLex/ForeignRelationsActKB http://beta.datalex.org/app/?rulebase=http://austlii.communi...
- dorgo 6y agoIt sound more like a prolog program. It takes a set of rules and facts and can infer other facts from there and show you all the steps of the process. Although it is a branch of AI it is not what one thinks of nowdays hearing the term AI. One thinks of some fancy powerful self learning black box, which can do miracles but can't explain how it does it.
- FeepingCreature 6y agoGiving a reasoned opinion is a huge unsolved problem in AI.
- mpalmer 6y agoYes, and I referred to that hypothetical AI as "far more sophisticated".
- Teever 6y agoI'll rephrase what I'm saying. What if the AI lies? What if the AI lies and civilians die because of it?
- adrianN 6y agoI think we're pretty far away from the kind of AI that could intentionally trick its operators to achieve a goal.
- duxup 6y ago>What if the AI decides that the course of action that leads to the desired outcome of winning the conflict is to kill civilians I always figured that was what happened in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project, the computer(s) found a way to ensure / prevent a nuclear war / peace, by taking control of the nuclear arsenals on their own and ensuring peace via their own threat of nuclear weapons.
- TheButlerian 6y agoIf it got the job done and we won the conflict - great work, AI!
- numpad0 6y ago> the desired outcome of winning the conflict Requires political victory. War is extension of politics, not alien invasion defense. Thus, a planning AI that can handle tactical targeting task but can’t handle politics probably “can’t war” going by definitions.