Statement 1:I’ve always been worried about potential misuses in lethal autonomous weapons. I think there should be something like a Geneva Convention banning them, like there is for chemical weapons.
Statement 2: You should regulate them (AI) based on how they perform. You run the experiments to see if the thing’s biased, or if it is likely to kill fewer people than a person.
The intention of utilizing AI in weapons systems is to reduce human error in their application. So is it unethical to implement an "AI" in a weapons system that kills fewer people than a person would?
Seperately, I am curious why Hinton is not talking more about state representation and prediction, as almost uniformly across DL/RL researchers this is agreed upon as the next step forward. Hinton certainly is working with Richard Sutton on his RL programs at U Alberta. Sutton believes that the next step in AI systems is state representation and prediction and gave a quick talk on it recently [1].