Austria Calls For Rapid Regulation as It Hosts Meeting on 'Killer Robots' (reuters.com) 38
Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to regulate the use of AI in weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a conference aimed at reviving largely stalled discussions on the issue. From a report: With AI technology advancing rapidly, weapons systems that could kill without human intervention are coming ever closer, posing ethical and legal challenges that most countries say need addressing soon. "We cannot let this moment pass without taking action. Now is the time to agree on international rules and norms to ensure human control," Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg told the meeting of non-governmental and international organisations as well as envoys from 143 countries.
"At least let us make sure that the most profound and far-reaching decision, who lives and who dies, remains in the hands of humans and not of machines," he said in an opening speech to the conference entitled "Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation." Years of discussions at the United Nations have produced few tangible results and many participants at the two-day conference in Vienna said the window for action was closing rapidly.
"At least let us make sure that the most profound and far-reaching decision, who lives and who dies, remains in the hands of humans and not of machines," he said in an opening speech to the conference entitled "Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation." Years of discussions at the United Nations have produced few tangible results and many participants at the two-day conference in Vienna said the window for action was closing rapidly.
If anyone knows... (Score:5, Funny)
If any country knows about the dangers of producing killer robots, it's Austria.
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Austria (Score:2)
Wasn't Hitler from there? And didn't they allow Nazi Germany to just annex them with zero resistance? Maybe they should look at regulating their humans first?
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Wasn't Hitler from there?
Yes. He was born in the province of Upper Austria.
And didn't they allow Nazi Germany to just annex them with zero resistance? Maybe they should look at regulating their humans first?
Only after the brownshirts or their Austrian equivalents installed people in the government. The majority of the populace was actually not enthralled by him.
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Austria, EU cost 2266 million euros. gain 3582 million euros.
https://commission.europa.eu/s... [europa.eu]
I'm not a professional mathematician, but it looks to me like Austria gains more than it pays.
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You geniuses in Austria need to govern yourselves, first. I wouldn't trust recommendations from Austria about stain-removal, much less governance.
Austria did govern themselves, with a total per capita death rate from Covid19 less than HALF that of Florida
Looks like the people who need governing are MAGA
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Got any more statistics based lying you'd like to do that I can shre
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Must be hard to live with that 1 D 10 T disease.
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Needs to have complete international buy in (Score:5, Interesting)
Today we have the extremely dangerous situation where Russia and the US are in or used to be in various arms limitations treaties whilst China, as the up and coming power, wasn't really around when they were negotiated and isn't included. That is leading to Russia and the US backing out of those treaties so they don't get a strategic disadvantage. That inequality is a real problem.
Similar things are happening in Ukraine. Anti landmine and anti-cluster-munition treaties limit Ukraine's friends like the UK and other European neighbours. Even the US seems to feel partly bound by them even though it hasn't yet signed. At the same time Russia just dumps land mines and cluster munitions all over Ukraine with no idea of morality even slowing them down slightly. That means that demands that Ukraine not use cluster munitions actually made the cluster munition situation in Ukraine worse by allowing Russia more chance to drop them everywhere.
If we get a treaty like this, we must make absolutely sure that those that refuse to join do not benefit from that refusal.
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I remember reading up on cluster munitions and the banning stuff.
Okay, the problem with cluster bombs is that generally speaking, you pay attention to the fusing mechanism on a 500 or 2k pound bomb. You're dropping a lot of explosives there, of course. Even if it fails, you only have a single UXO.
With cluster bombs, a lot of places "skimped" on the fuses. So you could have a failure rate of 20% or more where they don't go boom, so from a single cluster bomb you could end up with like 40 UXOs to worry abo
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Everything you said is absolutely right, however what it doesn't take into account is that the longer Russians are in Ukraine, the more cluster munitions they spread and importantly they tend to do that over the areas where Ukrainians live. The way to reduce the amount of cluster munitions is to get rid of them. The faster the better. Ironically, cluster munitions, specifically M-39 ATACMS are one of the most effective ways of doing that. They were held back due to Western morality questions about using clu
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Pretty much. Anything that shortens the war tends to lower casualties, both military and civilian. A long term grind like in Ukraine right now is about the worst type of war to suffer.
And it's not like Russia is going to stop using cluster munitions, including ones with 50%+ failure rates, unless they literally can't get or build the components for them anymore. Denying them western parts just makes the problem worse. Well, on the UXO front. I'll generally take a UXO any day over a munition actually ex
Don't they already have ... (Score:2)
It seems that everything in that country is trying to kill you.
They're already here (Score:2)
Seriously - with components anyone can buy and software anyone can obtain, I could build multiple types of killer robot in my garage.
Then again, I can also make all sorts of other very dangerous things. And I could drive my car down the boardwalk on a sunny day and probably kill dozens easily, hundreds with a bit of effort.
You mostly don't have to worry about that because typically we're not trying to kill each other, and the occasional unhinged person who is tends to either give a lot of warning or muck u
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What constitutes human intervention? (Score:2)
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I'm sure I'm miles behind the Ukrainians and ignorant of the political issues, but 'live within the designated target zone' is how I've always imagined making autonomous killer drones work. Not much different from a mine or grenade that way, except for deployment flexibility.
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What do you define as a robot? (Score:2)
There will definitely be killer robots (Score:3)
Beware of robot arms named "Mantrid" (Score:2)