AI could bring "nightmare scenarios," warns Amnesty International

Rahim pointed at recent reports of Google's involvement in the Pentagon's Project Maven, which involves harnessing AI image recognition technology to rapidly process photos taken by drones. Google recently unveiled new AI ethics policies and has said it won't continue with the project once its current contract expires next year after high-profile employee dissent over the project. It's unclear which other tech companies are still involved in the project and in what capacity, as many have declined to comment. For Amnesty International, one concern is that potentially deadly AI systems will operate on the battlefield with limited human supervision. "Compliance with the laws of war requires human judgement–the ability to analyze the intentions behind actions and make complex decisions about the proportionality or necessity of an attack," Rahim writes.