According to Nicole Van Rooijen, executive director of the Stop Killer Robots initiative, the gap between the capabilities of autonomous systems and the ability of humans to control them is constantly growing.
In an interview with “Rzeczpospolita”, the expert warns that the price of the military use of artificial intelligence will be paid by “civilians in conflict zones and citizens of authoritarian and democratic states who will have to confront these inhumane technologies when their use becomes the norm and human rights are undermined.”
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It was AI that attacked the school?
Although it has not yet been officially confirmed, experts say Saturday's attack on a girls' school in Minab, Iran, is probably the result of an attack carried out by AI.
As Rz's interlocutor Kaja Kowalczewska from the University of Wrocław, an AI Law Tech expert, warns, AI may lead to an escalation of the extent of damage and the number of victims of armed conflicts.
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Autonomous weapons systems are already being used in the Middle East and Ukraine. They independently track and attack targets, which – as Marta Stępniak, an expert at the Institute of Civil Affairs, points out in an interview with “Rz” – leads to the dehumanization of the decision-making process.
