Sipu Jha
China has a warning on AI use in the military for America. The military use of artificial intelligence (AI) should remain human-led to prevent it from spiraling out of control, China’s Defense Ministry said. The warning from the Chinese defense ministry comes just days after the Pentagon’s public fight with Anthropic. In an interview, a spokesman for China’s defence ministry, Jiang Bin said that the excessive use of artificial intelligence in the military by America could plunge the world into a “Terminator”-like dystopian future. The Pentagon recently confirmed Elon Musk’s Grok system is cleared for use in a classified setting, and blacklisted Anthropic after it reportedly refused to allow its Claude AI model to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous lethal warfare. Claude is the Pentagon’s most widely deployed frontier AI model and the only such model currently operating on the Defense Department’s classified systems.“Such choices as the unrestricted application of AI by the military, using AI as a tool to violate the sovereignty of other nations, allowing AI to excessively affect war decisions, and giving algorithms the power to determine life and death, not only erode ethical restraints and accountability in wars, but also risk technological runaway,” Jiang Bin added.“A dystopia depicted in the American film ‘The Terminator’ could one day come true,” he said. Jiang Bin further said, “Upholding a people-centered approach and the principle of AI for good, China believes that human primacy must be upheld in military applications of AI, and that all relevant weapon systems must be put under human control. We are opposed to taking advantage of the lead in AI and other emerging technologies to pursue absolute military dominance, or undermine the sovereignty and territorial security of other countries. China will work with other nations to advance multilateral AI governance with UN centrality, strengthen risk prevention and control, and ensure that AI always develops in a direction conducive to the progress of human civilization.”‘The Terminator’ movie released in 1984 and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger depicts an apocalyptic future in which AI-controlled robots fight humans.
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