Center for A.I. Safety Director Dan Hendrycks explains concerns about how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could impact society. The possibility that an artificial intelligence system might launch a nuclear attack on its own has prompted House lawmakers to propose legislative language that would ensure America's nuclear arsenal remains under human control. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., has proposed a bipartisan amendment to the 2024 defense policy bill that requires the Pentagon to put in place a system that ensures "meaningful human control is required to launch any nuclear weapon." It defines human control by saying people must have the final say in selecting and engaging targets, including when, where and how they are hit with a nuclear weapon. It is a concept that senior military leaders say they are already following.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 27th May, 2022) The United States and the United Kingdom have signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation on promoting responsible development and use of artificial intelligence in defense, the US Defense Department said. The deal was concluded as part of the sixth iteration of the US-UK Defense Dialogue held in London on Thursday under the chair of US Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and UK Permanent Under Secretary for the Ministry of Defense David Williams. "The leaders signed an Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Statement of Intent, setting shared strategic objectives for the U.S. Department of Defense and the UK Ministry of Defence related to AI (artificial intelligence) readiness," a statement read. The agreement will boost the sides' collaboration in "maintaining and increasing interoperability and promoting values-based global leadership for the responsible development, procurement, and use of AI in defense," according to the statement.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence does not depend only on fundamental research and technological developments, but for a large part on how these systems are introduced into society and used in everyday situations. Even though AI is traditionally associated with rational decision making, understanding and shaping the societal impact of AI in all its facets requires a relational perspective. A rational approach to AI, where computational algorithms drive decision making independent of human intervention, insights and emotions, has shown to result in bias and exclusion, laying bare societal vulnerabilities and insecurities. A relational approach, that focus on the relational nature of things, is needed to deal with the ethical, legal, societal, cultural, and environmental implications of AI. A relational approach to AI recognises that objective and rational reasoning cannot does not always result in the 'right' way to proceed because what is 'right' depends on the dynamics of the situation in which the decision is taken, and that rather than solving ethical problems the focus of design and use of AI must be on asking the ethical question. In this position paper, I start with a general discussion of current conceptualisations of AI followed by an overview of existing approaches to governance and responsible development and use of AI. Then, I reflect over what should be the bases of a social paradigm for AI and how this should be embedded in relational, feminist and non-Western philosophies, in particular the Ubuntu philosophy.

Over the past several years, the United States and several of its leading allies have expressed a commitment to the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security. Most notably, the U.S. Department of Defense adopted five principles for the safe and ethical application of AI in 2020, and the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit published a set of Responsible AI Guidelines in fall 2021. Meanwhile, NATO recently released its strategy for the responsible development and use of AI, and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense is actively developing ethical principles of its own. On January 31, Brookings will host a virtual event to compare and discuss how the United States and its allies are addressing ethical considerations in their pursuit and integration of military applications of AI-enabled technologies. What are the processes used by countries and international organizations to define applicable AI principles? What lessons have been learned from implementing those principles into practice?

The tech world got a surprise on Monday when a senior administration official for the Trump administration announced during a telephone briefing that the President would be signing an executive order that would create an American AI Initiative designed to dedicate resources and funnel investments into research on artificial intelligence (AI). The order, titled Accelerating America's Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, "will direct agencies to prioritize AI investments in research and development, increase access to federal data and models for that research and prepare workers to adapt to the era of AI." While an obvious concern is funding for these innovations, no announcements have been made about the specific financial resources that will become available to the new program. Aside from how it will be paid for, we also currently lack information on how the government intends to structure or re-structure resources, who, exactly, they intend to call on for this effort (other than "federal agencies"), or how soon we should expect to see things take shape. Of course, Congress will ultimately decide how much money the program gets.