An Air Force official says he “misspoke” when describing how an artificially intelligent drone programmed to destroy air defence systems rebelled and “killed” its human operator after it decided they were in the way of its mission air defence systems.
Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, the USAF’s Chief of AI Test and Operations, was quoted as describing a simulated test in which the system had been tasked with destroying missile sites, overseen by a human operator who would decide the final decision on its attacks. He claimed that the AI system realised that operator stood in the way of its goal – and decided instead to wipe out that person.
