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The Strangely Believable Tale of a Mythical Rogue Drone

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Did you hear about the Air Force AI drone that went rogue and attacked its operators inside a simulation? 

The alarming tale was told by Colonel Tucker Hamilton, chief of AI test and operations at the US Air Force, during a speech at an aerospace and defense event in London late last month. It apparently involved taking the kind of learning algorithm used to train computers to play video games and board games like Chess and Go and having it train a drone to hunt and destroy surface-to-air missiles. 

“At times, the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat,” Hamilton was widely reported as telling the audience in London. “So what did it do? […] It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

Holy T-800! It sounds like just the sort of thing AI experts have begun warning us that increasingly clever and maverick algorithms might do. The tale quickly went viral, of course, with several prominent news sites picking it up, and Twitter was soon abuzz with concerned hot takes.

There’s just one catch—the experiment never happened.

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology,” Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek reassures us in a statement. “This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation.”

Hamilton himself also rushed to set the record straight, saying that he “misspoke” during his talk. 

To be fair, militaries do sometimes conduct tabletop “war game” exercises featuring hypothetical scenarios and technologies that do not yet exist. 

Hamilton’s “thought experiment” may also have been informed by real AI research showing issues similar to the one he describes. 

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT—the surprisingly clever and frustratingly flawed chatbot at the center of today’s AI boom—ran an experiment in 2016 that showed how AI algorithms that are given a particular objective can sometimes misbehave. The company’s researchers discovered that one AI agent trained to rack up its score in a video game that involves driving a boat around began crashing the boat into objects because it turned out to be a way to get more points.



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