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Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Weapon Systems

verfasst von : Stanislav Abaimov, Maurizio Martellini

Erschienen in: 21st Century Prometheus

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Cyber space, the fifth warfare domain, is benefitting from technological advancements and already accommodating Artificial Intelligence (AI) as its essential part. Enhanced by machine learning capabilities and AI decision making potential, autonomous military systems have been presented as highly efficient new generation weapons ready to replace conventional armaments and human combatants.
Cyber physical weapon systems, ranging from self-targeting missiles to self-learning ground vehicles are boosting covert military offensive capabilities increasing heated discussions and tensions between nations. The AI cyber arms race, escalated by super powers competing for global dominance, is supported by multi-billion-dollar investments into state-of-the-art technologies and leading research institutions. Further uncontrollable AI-based military technology development will expand the threat landscape with self-replicating cyber weapons and autonomous offense.
The chapter reviews the AI impact on autonomy and its major criteria, explores cyber vulnerabilities in autonomous technologies, highlights critical issues of the AI use in AWS, deliberates on incorporation of ethical principles into development of technologies, reveals legal complications and consequences of AI arms race, forecasts future challenges. It also provides some potential crisis scenarios.
Current research arguments that the generated neural networks and machine learning algorithms, being of complex nature, still remain unpredictable, unreliable and even dangerous when fully autonomous. Joint global action, legally bounding regulations and internationally coordinated research are the major solutions to harness and revert the emerging existential danger.

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Fußnoten
1
Quoted after Cellan-Jones, Rory (2014).
 
4
Neural Network Libraries by Sony, https://​nnabla.​org
 
5
 
6
Quoted from Vincent (2018).
 
7
See (BBC 2016).
 
8
Aristotle as quoted in Partridge and Hussain (1992).
 
10
Close-In Weapons System.
 
11
The next paradigm shift: AI-driven Cyber-Attacks, DarkTrace, 2018, https://​www.​darktrace.​com/​en/​resources/​wp-ai-driven-cyber-attacks.​pdf
 
13
Exploit – a constructed command or a software designed to take advantage of a flaw in a computer system (vulnerability), typically for malicious purposes, such as accessing system information, establishing remote command line interface, causing denial of service, etc.
 
14
US military F-18 launch Drone swarm in tests at China Lake, 2017, https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​DjUdVxJH6yI
 
17
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977, ICRC database, at https://​ihl-databases.​icrc.​org/​applic/​ihl/​ihl.​nsf/​Article.​xsp?​action=​openDocument&​documentId=​FEB84E9C01DDC926​C12563CD0051DAF7​
 
18
The Martens clause first appeared in the preamble to the 1899 Hague Convention on the Laws and Customs of War on Land, from the statement done by Fyodor Martens, the Russian delegate at the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899. It states that “Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued, the High Contracting Parties think it right to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilized nations, from the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience”, at https://​ihl-databases.​icrc.​org/​applic/​ihl/​ihl.​nsf/​Comment.​xsp?​documentId=​42376D4763042448​C12581150044672C​&​action=​OpenDocument
 
20
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflict (Additional Protocol I or AP I) (adopted on 8 June 1977, entered into force on 7 December 1978), art 52(2).
 
21
Asilomar AI Principles, Future of Life Institute, 2017, at https://​futureoflife.​org/​ai-principles
 
22
United Nations Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) regulates weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects, with Protocols I, II and III, opened for signature 10 April 1981, entered into force 2 December 1983, at https://​treaties.​un.​org/​pages/​ViewDetails.​aspx?​src=​TREATY&​mtdsg_​no=​XXVI-2&​chapter=​26&​lang=​en
 
24
SyNAPSE Program Develops Advanced Brain-Inspired Chip, 8 July 2014, https://​www.​darpa.​mil/​news-events/​2014-08-07
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Weapon Systems
verfasst von
Stanislav Abaimov
Maurizio Martellini
Copyright-Jahr
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28285-1_8