Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and other famous scientists and inventors believe that the creation of artificial intelligence weapons threatens the existence of mankind. They demand from the world community to ban its use, as reported in an open letter.
The letter was also signed by hundreds of researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics. Earlier, physicist Stephen Hawking and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has expressed his fear on the possibility of control of the artificial intelligence, and later joined Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
But after the Internet was demonstrated quadrocopter, equipped with a gun, the threat of weapons of autonomous artificial intelligence became apparent and many other scientists.
The letter’s authors fear “global race AI-arms” and predicted that “self-managed drones will” Kalashnikov “near future».
At the same time, scientists realize that artificial intelligence technology can benefit humanity, but the use of AI-arms should be banned by international agreements, as is already done with chemical and biological weapons.
The fears relate not only to scholars of military drones, but also many other types of weapons, such as high altitude or orbital lasers.
At the same time attract the military benefits of such weapons, because it allows you to compensate for the difference in the amount of manpower, as well as to wage war remotely and without losses, which significantly reduces the cost of fighting .
The defenders AI-arms, in turn, argue that it motivates the development of other countries go to participate combat robots in military conflicts instead of people.
Scientists have criticized these arguments and claim that the autonomous drones are ideal for spot anonymous eliminate key members of society, destabilizing the political situation, the selective destruction of members of certain ethnic groups.
The authors of the letter believe autonomous weapons the third revolution in the military after the invention of gunpowder and nuclear weapons. Two previous changed world order, and the third can do the same.
Another threat is the vulnerability of modern computer systems to hacker attacks. Make good use of cyber weapons today are not only the world’s major powers, but also a number of authoritarian states and even terrorist groups. Hacking production line of military drones and reprogramming can lead to unpredictable consequences.
Some of the technologies that bring humanity to a full autonomous weapons, there are now.
Military drones
drones used by the military, already have the functions of automatic flight on a given route using GPS, are able to follow the owner at a safe height and carry additional equipment and supplies. Also, developing technologies unified group piloting drones, each UAV operates in conjunction with the others.
Modern drones capable of carrying up to 2.5 kg of cargo and fly up to 32 km on a single charge, which is allows you to equip them with explosives and used for terrorist acts.
With the development of battery technology, solar batteries and instant wireless charging drones could become virtually autonomous and to fly, tracking, patrolling and watching for a long time. In addition, the British and US military have been successfully carried out experiments on the printout drones on 3D-printer that with advances in technology make it possible to repair in the field.
In the race to develop commercial autonomous drones included more and more manufacturers. So, after the release of GoPro autonomous aircraft in aerial photography using cloud data announced mobile unit Sony.
Underwater drones
Unmanned vehicles are developed not only for air travel, but also for underwater exploration. For example, the US Navy successfully launched Remus autonomous underwater vehicle 600 from a submarine in the Mediterranean.
Submarine torpedo Russian production will also be equipped with a digital information management system, which, according to the chief designer of the plant “Dagdizel” Shamil Aliyev, will allow them to combine the functions of a scout observer lzheinformatora and means of direct injury.
«Smart” bombs
July 25, 2015 the Turkish Air Force struck air strikes on militant targets of a terrorist organization “Islamic State”, whose activities are prohibited by law from different countries, including the Russian Federation. The Turkish military claimed that strikes from Turkish airspace with the use of “smart” bombs, avoiding civilian casualties and more effectively engage targets. Such bombs also have the ability to adjust the ultimate goal defeat.
«Smart” small arms
The small arms also used a number of modern information technology. So, start TrackingPoint developing “smart” guns for the US Army, which automatically detect the weather, terrain and other factors, and to instruct the troops, how to aim and shoot.
«Smart” weapons can collect much data to be processed in the cloud to improve algorithms shooting and combat tactics. These technologies may in the future develop into a self-learning weapons.
However, developing and technologies to protect people against the misuse of weapons. For example, Safe Gun Technology is developing a system for the protection of small arms on the basis of recognition of the owner of the fingerprint that occurs in a matter of seconds. This will avoid taking possession of a weapon by criminals and people with mental disabilities.
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