US Air Force Colonel 'Spoiled' That AI Drone Killed Operator During Simulation

Colonel Tucker Hamilton of the 96th Test Squadron of the US Air Force

The Air and Space Capability Summit told the story of how a human operator was attacked by a drone during a simulation. As it turned out, the military man “misspoke.”

What is known

A corresponding statement was sent out by the Royalaviation society (Royal Aeronautical Society), which organized the summit. The letter states that Tucker Hamilton "misspoke" during the presentation and the simulation was not actually run.

The Colonel expressed a hypothetical possibilitydevelopment of events, which is based on plausible scenarios. By the way, earlier Ann Stefanek, a spokeswoman for the US Air Force office in the Department of Defense, also said that the service had not conducted any experiments involving artificial intelligence-based drones.

Tucker Hamilton noted that the US Air Force does not needin simulations to understand that similar situations may arise. Although this is only a hypothetical example, it illustrates the real problems associated with the capabilities of artificial intelligence.