At a harbor in Sydney in Australia, engineers are working on a submarine that will be operated by artificial intelligence, and which will not have any human crew, writes Reuters.
The submarine has been named “Ghost Shark”. It will be as long as a school bus, and it is expected that there will be three of these ready for use in mid-2025.
The production is part of a competition between the United States and its allies, and China, to most quickly develop artificial intelligence-controlled weapons that will operate autonomously, writes the news agency.
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The development is frightening, says strategic advisor to OsloMet and Høyskolen Kristiania, Morten Irgens.
– Autonomy in weapons can mean so much, such as, for example, that they can maneuver themselves, or shoot down incoming missiles and rockets. What is worrying is if we leave it to guns to make decisions on their own about taking lives, he says.
– So you leave it to a machine if a human life is to be taken. You give the weapon that characteristic, adds Irgens.
He has worked with Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over three decades, has engaged in what is referred to as lethal autonomy, and is clear in his opinion:
– Taking the lives of other people should never be left to a machine.
– Nobody wants to be safe
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The project in Sydney is driven by time constraints, writes Reuters: “It is a competition, the outcome of which can determine the global balance of power”.
– China’s military buildup is now the largest and most ambitious of any country since the end of the Second World War, writes the company Anduril, which builds the “Ghost Shark submarines,” in a message to the news agency.
– A crisis can occur with little or no warning, they write further.
– We cannot wait five to ten years, or decades, to get things. Time is running out, says Shane Arnott, who is senior vice president for engineering at Anduril.
– CAN’T WAIT: – We can’t wait five to ten years, or decades, to get things. Time is running out, says Shane Arnott, who is senior vice president for engineering at Anduril. Photo: Anduril/Dan Gosse/Reuters/NTB Show more
– Europe lags behind
Morten Irgens believes it is important that it remains people who make the decisions about whether to take life.
– We must not leave the weapon’s critical function; the taking of life, to a machine. I hope that in the foreseeable future we will have people in the decision-making loop, he says.
However, he sees what is about to happen, he says:
– Artificial intelligence is used more and more in a number of things. It can be used to analyze troop movements, predict the next attack, analyze incoming missiles or maneuver around, he says.
– AI is also on its way to becoming the most important driving force and tool in scientific discoveries within industrial development and in design to name a few. Everything you can think of, you can eventually develop systems to do, and Europe is far behind here, he says.
2023-09-10 21:58:40
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