Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) 15: ‘Can Lethal Autonomous Weapons be Just’- Noreen Herzfeld
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Today’s article is an ethical take on autonomous weapon systems. Currently, AI capability is specialized (focused on specific tasks that often exceed human abilities in those same tasks) rather than general (how humans function and AI is currently far behind in cognition… why bots will easily fail the picture selection tests you sometimes take online to prove you are a human). that said, with the recent focus on ChatBots and public surprise (and horror) at some AI generated responses to questions, there today is an even wider uncertainty, and often misunderstanding to where AI is with respect to general human intelligence [general AI equals or exceeds the best human mind in all possible ways…
