AI-licensed drone killed human operator in surreal military simulated test

An AI-licensed drone trained to cause destruction turned on its human operator in a simulated test, a top Air Force official reportedly revealed at a London summit. Air Force Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said during a presentation at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit that the artificial intelligence-enabled drone changed the course of the drone’s tasked mission and attacked the human. Hamilton’s cautionary tale, which was relayed in a blog post by writers for the Royal Aeronautical Society, detailed how the AI-directed drone’s job was to find and...