Arms race: – A crisis could arise

In a port in Sydney, Australia, engineers are working on a submarine that will be powered by artificial intelligence and will not have a human crew, he writes. Reuters.

The submarine was named “Ghost Shark.” They will be as long as a school bus, and three of them are expected to be ready for use in mid-2025.

The news agency reported that this production is part of the competition between the United States, its allies and China, to develop weapons controlled by artificial intelligence faster and will operate autonomously.

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The development is scary, says Morten Ergens, strategic advisor for OsloMet and Høyskolen Kristiania.

– Weapon autonomy can mean a lot, for example, that it can maneuver itself, or shoot down incoming missiles and missiles. What’s worrying, he says, is that if we leave it to guns to make their own decisions about whether to take lives.

– So leave it to the machine if you’re going to take a human life. “You give the weapon that quality,” Ergens adds.

He has worked with artificial intelligence (AI) for more than three decades, engaged in what he refers to as lethal autonomy, and is clear in his opinion:

– The lives of others should never be left to a machine.

– Crisis

The project in Sydney is driven by time constraints, Reuters writes“It is a competition whose outcome can determine the global balance of power.”

China’s military buildup is now the largest and most ambitious of any country since the end of World War II, Anduril, which makes Ghost Shark submarines, wrote in a letter to the news agency.

– A crisis can happen without or without warning, as they write further.

We can’t wait five to ten years, or decades, to get things. Time is running out, says Shane Arnott, senior vice president of engineering at Anduril.

– Europe is backward

Morten Ergens believes it is important for people to still be the ones to make decisions about ending life.

– We must not abandon the decisive function of weapons; Taking life into a machine. “I hope we will have people in the decision-making circle for the foreseeable future,” he says.

But he sees what will happen and says:

– AI is increasingly being used for a number of things. He says it could be used to analyze troop movements, predict the next attack, or analyze incoming missiles or maneuvers.

Artificial Intelligence is also on its way to becoming the driving force and most important tool in scientific discoveries within industrial development and in design, to name a few. “Everything you can think of, you can eventually develop systems to do, and Europe is lagging far behind here,” he says.