Mitigating the risks of military AI -- GCN

What: "The Cautious Path to Strategic Advantage: How Militaries Should Plan for AI," a research study done by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Why: While artificial intelligence can play many roles in the automation of combat, weighing the risks -- particularly surrounding machine learning -- and compensating for them accordingly is critical. Findings: The risks around AI are significant, EFF researchers warned. Machine learning can be easily fooled, while reinforcement learning -- or learning from environmental interactions -- produces innovative but unpredictable AI. Factor in the inherent cybersecurity advantage that attackers have over defenders, and using AI in the military could lead to "catastrophic forms of failure that are hard to mitigate."