Slaughterbots? International artificial intelligence summit to focus on military use
- Netherlands to host first international conference on responsible military uses of AI
- AI with the potential to autonomously pick targets could be just over the horizon
While chatbots have caught the world’s imagination, should we be more worried about “slaughterbots”?
The first international conference on responsible military uses of artificial intelligence (AI) is being held in the Netherlands next week.
The United States and China are among around 50 countries that will attend, with hopes of producing a declaration at the end of the meeting in The Hague on February 15 and 16.
Russia has not been invited over the invasion of Ukraine.
“We truly see this as a key shaping moment in the future of AI in the military,” Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra told a small group of journalists on Thursday.
“In a field that is really about life and death, you want to make sure that humans, regardless of all the flaws baked into our DNA, are part of the decision-making process.”