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AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Risk Geopolitical Instability and Threaten AI Research
Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan Badman, Shayne Longpre, Kanaka Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01859

AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons Risk Geopolitical Instability and Threaten AI Research
The recent embrace of machine learning (ML) in the development of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) creates serious risks to geopolitical stability and the free exchange of ideas in AI research. This topic has received comparatively little attention of late compared to risks stemming from superintelligent artificial general intelligence (AGI), but requires fewer assumptions about the course of technological development and is thus a nearer-future issue. ML is already enabling the substitution of…