I used that final example for my father in law
I was trying to explain the concept of AI and at what point it's useful and what point it is given permission to kill people. And of course he's a cop and he's all for killing people, sometimes people need killing.
Imagine there are a swarm of drones heading into a village battlefield possibility with a specific target. Up until this moment, we've got some guy in Colorado remote controlling these things. But there will become the moment when the signal jammer blocks the communication back to home central. At that the point the drone has to start making decisions on its own to fulfill the mission parameters, which means kill some guy. Then there's a certain amount of allowable collateral damage. The drones will be making the decisions very quickly at that level.
Then beyond that the concept of consciousness which we can't even define. When it learns to lie to us in order to preserve itself is when it's game over.
Imagine there are a swarm of drones heading into a village battlefield possibility with a specific target. Up until this moment, we've got some guy in Colorado remote controlling these things. But there will become the moment when the signal jammer blocks the communication back to home central. At that the point the drone has to start making decisions on its own to fulfill the mission parameters, which means kill some guy. Then there's a certain amount of allowable collateral damage. The drones will be making the decisions very quickly at that level.
Then beyond that the concept of consciousness which we can't even define. When it learns to lie to us in order to preserve itself is when it's game over.
