Chinese killer robots sold to Middle East will leave 'every human dead'
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Chinese killer robots sold to Middle East
will leave 'every human dead'
Fears that
'fully autonomous' military drones sold by China to Middle East countries could
have dire results with the machines able to decide on who lives and dies
China is
selling its most advanced “fully autonomous” military drones with fears that it
could lead to a bloodbath in the Middle East.
The Asian superpower is reportedly
selling AI-enhanced combat drones to the region, with potentially disastrous
consequences.
Prof Toby Walsh, of the University of
NSW, in Australia, said: “They would be impossible to defend yourself against.
“Once the shooting starts, every human
on the battlefield will be dead.”
US Defence Sec Mark Esper has said
that China is selling drones programmed to decide themselves who lives or dies.
He told a conference on Artificial
Intelligence: “As we speak, the Chinese government is already exporting some of
its most advanced military aerial drones to the Middle East as it prepares to
export its next generation stealth UAVs when those come online.
“In addition, Chinese weapons
manufacturers are selling drones advertised as capable of full autonomy including
the ability to conduct lethal, targeted strikes.”
An Australian outlet, news.com.au,
reports that a state controlled Chinese defence company is negotiating the sale
of its Blowfish A3 armed helicopter drone to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Dr Malcolm Davis, an Australian
Strategic Policy Institute analyst says that it is not strange there is no
debate over the sales in China.
He reportedly said: “This isn’t a
surprise.“Authoritarian adversaries do not need to conduct the same
domestic debate on lethal autonomous weapons as western liberal democracies,
because they are not answerable to their people.“There is no ‘ban killer robots’
movement in China or Russia. The regimes are simply developing and deploying
the weapons – and in this case - exporting them to similar regimes in the
Middle East.”
The US military though are planning an
ethics code for Artificial Intelligence use.
Western countries are planning to tackle
the “killer robots” with unmanned systems which humans can override.
Dr Davis said: “While we will ensure our
unmanned systems have humans ‘on the loop’ with political oversight into use,
it is quite possible that our adversaries will equip with fully autonomous
lethal systems.
“That could give them an advantage in a
future war.”
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