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The Next AI Crisis May Begin With the Wrong Suspect
Earlier this year, while the war with Iran was still under way, the US military came close to boarding a Chinese vessel transiting the Middle East. An intelligence report concluded that the ship was likely carrying components linked to a nuclear weapons program. Military aircraft were already in the air, and armed personnel were preparing […]
A CNN report describes how the US "almost started a war" with China based on an intelligence report that claimed a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapon components.
Error-Prone AI Nearly Sparked World War Three Last Month
In an op-ed for The Guardian, authors Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender argue that policymakers are focusing too heavily on hypothetical "superintelligence" while overlooking the more immediate danger of deploying unreliable AI in high-stakes settings. They point to an as-yet independently unverified...
The post When AI decides on war: Hallucination would have triggered almost catastrophe first appeared in the online magazine BASIC thinking. About our newsletter UPDATE you start the day with the best information every morning. Military near-confrontations on the basis of AI errors are increasing. People have already died. Most recently, the US was about to board a Chinese ship because of a technical hallucination. To prevent the worst, experts …
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