When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify

When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify

https://www.nextgov.com/ ^

| JANUARY 26, 2023
| By Patrick Tucker,

Posted on 01/27/2023 12:21:53 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

Did you think the Pentagon had a hard rule against using lethal autonomous weapons? It doesn’t. But it does have hoops to jump through before such a weapon might be deployed—and, as of Wednesday, a revised policy intended to clear up confusion.

The biggest change in the Defense Department’s new version of its 2012 doctrine on lethal autonomous weapons is a clearer statement that it is possible to build and deploy them safely and ethically but not without a lot of oversight.

That’s meant to clear up the popular perception that there’s some kind of a ban on such weapons. “No such requirement appears in [the 2012 policy] DODD 3000.09, nor any other DOD policy,” wrote Greg Allen, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Governance Project and a senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

(Excerpt) Read more at nextgov.com …

TOPICS: News/Current Events

KEYWORDS: robots

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To: RomanSoldier19

After it becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m.?

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:24:17 PM PST
by SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 … as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ……)

To: RomanSoldier19

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:24:20 PM PST
by higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

To: higgmeister

Asimov later added the “Zeroth Law,” above all the others – “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:25:43 PM PST
by higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

To: higgmeister

You forgot the Zeroth Law:

Zeroth Law

A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:26:38 PM PST
by Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)

To: SaveFerris

If a bunch of robots go rogue and start killing civilians they will be sent written reprimands in triplicate!

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:27:26 PM PST
by cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)

To: higgmeister

Now we have the “woketh law”.

5. White people are not considered “human” for the purposes of the other laws.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:28:35 PM PST
by cgbg
(Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)

To: cgbg

What could possibly go wrong with armed robots?

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:28:39 PM PST
by SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 … as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ……)

To: RomanSoldier19

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:29:27 PM PST
by Magnum44
(…against all enemies, foreign and domestic… )

To: SaveFerris

To: Yo-Yo

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:30:55 PM PST
by higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

To: RomanSoldier19

“The biggest change in the Defense Department’s new version of its 2012 doctrine on lethal autonomous weapons is a clearer statement that it is possible to build and deploy them safely and ethically but not without a lot of oversight.“

Consider Lindsey Graham’s alleged exhortation to Capitol Police “you have guns, use them” on January 6th, it doesn’t afford much confidence about the oversight part.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:35:41 PM PST
by Tench_Coxe

To: higgmeister

Yup, one minute before I posted. LOL!

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:36:33 PM PST
by Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)

To: RomanSoldier19

When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy…

Anytime it wants to.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:36:39 PM PST
by Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)

To: higgmeister

Don’t forget that Asimov was a Navy intel guy whose last book, in the early ‘70s, was about environmentalism and the destructive power of overpopulation.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:38:14 PM PST
by 9YearLurker

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:41:12 PM PST
by BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

To: SaveFerris

Maybe we can talk the robots to death with paradoxes. LOL

Nomad:

M5:

Lamu:

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:49:08 PM PST
by Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 — Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)

To: RomanSoldier19

Patriot, as deployed in the Gulf War I, had certain modes where it would automatically engage, one of which was when it felt threatened by an anti-radiation (anti-radar) missile. Two marine pilots were flying together without IFF (Identification friend or foe) active. One had a malfunction and separated to land on an airfield defended by a Patriot battery. When he separated from his wingman, he looked to the Patriot radar like a separating missile. When he flew an approach directly at the radar he looked like an anti radiation missile. His wingman decided to follow him. It looked like a salvo of two anti radiation missiles. Patriot did what it was programmed to do. Thereafter, the air boss was the E-3 AWACS, and Patriot could only engage a target if authorized by the air boss.

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:51:04 PM PST
by Lonesome in Massachussets
(Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)

To: Tell It Right

You forgot Haricourt Fenton Mudd and V’Ger

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:53:38 PM PST
by ro_dreaming
(Who knew that in 2022 “1984”, “Enemy of the State”, and “Person of Interest” would be non-fiction?)

To: higgmeister

“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”

Both the later books, and the Will Smith movie explored the logical conclusion of that law: to protect humans against themselves, robots would have to take control

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posted on 01/27/2023 12:55:35 PM PST
by PapaBear3625
(We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)

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