Jun 1, 2023

AI Used for Military Purposes: A Scenario

Explore the potential flaws of AI used for military purposes with this scenario. Learn about the differences between a scenario and a simulation, and how this story may be too on-the-nose to be true.

AI MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

Simon Willison

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It's worth reading the original source for this story too - scroll to the very bottom of https://t.co/itSua1vFzc for that https://t.co/o904mf92uN
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 1, 2023
It's hard to believe this is a legit story and not science fiction, it's too on-the-nose - but the original source looks like it should hold up
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 1, 2023
Looks like this may have been a "scenario" and not a "simulation", in which case presumably this was a deliberate illustration of potential flaws in AI used for military purposes https://t.co/eWpeHaj1UX
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 2, 2023
Here's an explanation of "scenario" vs "simulation" https://t.co/R2ikLQDRrg
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 2, 2023
So yeah, I'm pretty certain this story has been misrepresented - I think the conference talk described a purely hypothetical scenario which imagined how a military AI could go wrong, but it's being misreported as the result of an actual simulation
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 2, 2023
Here's what I think happened here https://t.co/zn0juD4pKc
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 2, 2023
That original source has now been updated https://t.co/kAmY3XPxT2
— Simon Willison (@simonw) June 2, 2023