AI Weapons No Longer Need Human Approval
On the latest Stacked Podcast, Nick and Jack examine the US and Russia's recent efforts to remove human review from an AI weapons framework that allows AI to identify and engage targets. They reflect on whether any lethal decision should be made by an AI, with Nick calling it "full self-driving for murder" and Jack considering the trade-offs between human decision-making and robot error rates. They also look at Elon Musk's plans for Colossus 2, which is targeting around 1.2 million chips by December, and ask whether software, hardware, or energy is the deciding factor in the AI race…
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