Tomorrow's Show There has to be discussion of the bogus story as how a “thought exercise” turned into “Human operator Killed by an A.I. Drone it was Operating.” Here's an excerpt from the Defense One Newsletter trying to explain what happened. During the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit in London, Col. Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton said he saw a simulated test in which an AI-enabled drone killed a human operator in the simulation. These comments went viral after snippets from a Royal Aeronautical Society blog post recapping the event started circulating on Twitter. The AI drone was tasked with destroying surface-to-air missile threats, with the final “go/no go” given by the operator, said Hamilton, the Air Force’s chief of AI test and operations, according to the post. “However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission—killing SAMs—and then attacked the operator in the simulation,” he said.“We trained the system—‘Hey don’t kill the operator—that’s bad. You’re gonna lose points if you do that’. So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.” Complete story here. In fact the whole notion seems to stem from the script of Colossus: The Forbin Project, the 1970 science fiction movie discussed on the show. The movie is available for viewing on archive.org. | 
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