The following report is by the Trends Journal:
That AI pause? If it’s happening at all (which is doubtful), the pause certainly doesn’t extend to the rapid development and implementation of AI in military applications.
The latest case in point was reported this past week by Bloomberg. (“Israel Quietly Embeds AI Systems in Deadly Military Operations,” 16 Jul 2023.)
Amid rising tensions in occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli military is apparently deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to manage logistics preparation, and to identify high value bombing targets.
Israeli military sources cited by the news outlet said the AI-based targeting system can quickly scan enormous quantities of data to prioritize and assign thousands of targets for both piloted aircraft and drones.
Another artificial intelligence (AI) application, “Fire Factory,” is being used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to manage combat operations, including estimating ammunition loads and suggesting a timeline for each strike.
The disclosure follows a recent escalation of airstrikes near West Jerusalem on the occupied West Bank, as part of what Israel has described as a “focused counterterrorism operation.”
From here, use of AI by nations in conflict is only expected to grow.
In the case of Israel, by some estimates, half of military technologists will be focused on AI by 2028.
The Russia Ukraine War has seen AI deployed, for analyzing “spatial intelligence”—and some suspect, for much more, including aiding drone strikes.
This past March, National Defense magazine said that the war was a testing ground for a new technological level of warfare–the dawning age of AI war:
While still short of changing the character of war, we believe Ukraine is a laboratory in which the next form of warfare is being created. It is not a laboratory on the margins, but a center-stage, relentless and unprecedented effort to fine-tune, adapt and improve AI-enabled or AI-enhanced systems for immediate deployment. That effort is paving the way for AI warfare in the future.
“Ukraine A Living Lab for AI Warfare,” 24 Mar 2023
As the magazine noted, some have warned that AI use and fast evolving sophistication may spawn “Hyperwar,” or wars which are conducted and escalate, largely calculated, controlled and carried out by AI, not humans.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has long been reporting on and forecasting the intention of technologically advanced countries to gain advantage by weaponizing AI.
We have also called the trend of an AI arms race that harks back to the rivalries of the Cold War era, and the technology quests of the 20th century, including the race for an atomic weapon.
The moment is here. We predict AI will be used for the worst possible applications, to pacify battlefields and domestic populations.
As always, true human progress, and technological progress, are not the same thing.
But AI, which already convincingly mimics humans, and outdoes us in an increasing number of ways, represents something unlike any technology that has come before.
It should not be equated with a factory line, a moon flight, or a neutron bomb. It is already a sophisticated form of intelligence. And it is being pushed forward–and designed to self-improve–at a rate which worries even longtime AI innovators and experts.
That should spur a robust societal and political debate among humans, and give pause to every AI related endeavor. But that is highly unlikely to happen in any way that meaningfully reduces the worst exploitations of AI, which will happen via governments and high-tech mega companies, who will buy up smaller innovators as needed.
It will take a monumentally devastating event to spur a real war OVER AI.
By then, it may be far too late.
For related reading, see “AI BEING TRAINED TO FIGHT FOR WOKEISM AND WAR,” “AI WILL DECIDE ITS OWN KILL TARGETS” and associated article links.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 14:12
The age of “evil AI,” the stuff of science fiction movies and videogames, are now happening right now before the whole to see (or those paying attention that is).
As I have said different times before, all these “innovations” and inventions man creates that are initially touted as being a good thing, always turn sour in a heartbeat. The highest sciences and wisdom of this world always results in death.
[15] Their feet are swift to shed blood: [16] Destruction and misery are in their ways: [17] And the way of peace have they not known: [18] There is no fear of God before their eyes. Romans 3:15-18
So how much longer before the AI turns evil and goes on a rogue killing spree, or commits multiple acts of friendly fire, or is hacked by enemy intelligence, will this be turned on civilians, and so on?
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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