“This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation,” said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, referring to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped invent the atomic bomb in 1945 and later advocated for controlling the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He said this while referring to.
Civilian, military and technology officials from more than 100 countries gathered in Vienna on Monday to discuss how their economies can control the convergence of AI and military technology. These two areas have recently fascinated investors, driving stock valuations to historic highs.
Growing global conflicts, coupled with financial incentives for companies promoting AI, will further increase the challenge of controlling killer robots, said Jaan Tarin, an early investor in Alphabet's AI platform DeepMind Technologies. It is said that they are doing so.
“Silicon Valley's incentives may not be in line with the rest of humanity,” Tallinn said.
Governments around the world are taking steps to collaborate with companies integrating AI tools into defense. The Department of Defense is pouring millions of dollars into AI startups.
Last week, the European Union paid Thales SA to create an image database to help assess battlefield targets.
Tel Aviv-based +972 magazine reported this month that Israel is using an artificial intelligence program called “Lavender” to identify assassination targets.
After the story (which Israel disputes), UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “deeply troubled” by reports about the use of AI in the Gaza military operation, and said he was “deeply troubled” by reports of the use of AI in the Gaza military operation, saying that no part of life-or-death decisions should be made. He said it should not be left to cold calculations. of algorithms.
“The future of slaughter bots is here,” said physicist Anthony Aguirre, who predicted the technology's trajectory in a 2017 short film that was seen by more than 1.6 million viewers. “We need an arms control treaty negotiated by the United Nations General Assembly.”
But supporters of a diplomatic solution are likely to be frustrated, at least in the short term, said Alexander Kment, Austria's top disarmament official and organizer of this week's conference.
“The classical approach to arms control does not work because we are not talking about a single weapon system, but a combination of dual-use technologies,” Kment said in an interview.
Kment suggested that rather than conclude a new “masterpiece” treaty, countries may be forced to use the legal tools already at their disposal to stall.
Export controls and humanitarian law enforcement could help curb the proliferation of AI weapons systems, he said.
In the long term, Costa Rica's Foreign Minister Arnoldo Andres Tinoco predicted that countries will be forced to develop new rules once the technology becomes available to non-state actors and potentially terrorists.
“The ready availability of autonomous weapons removes the restrictions that have limited the ability of only a few to participate in arms races,” he said. “Students with a 3D printer and basic programming knowledge can now create drones capable of inflicting widespread casualties. Autonomous weapons systems will forever change the concept of international stability. I changed.”