訊息及科技新報內容皆不完整。當事人澄清為口誤,僅為假設性的“思想實驗”,並沒有「AI無人機模擬」這件事發生。
科技新報刊登為2023/6/2,而科技新報引用的英文The Register原文報導最下方寫到:
6月2日最後更新
經過一些媒體關注後,Hamilton上校更正他關於「人工智慧無人機模擬」的說法,說是“口誤”,並沒有這樣的實驗,我們被告知它只是一個「假設性的“思想實驗”」。
Hamilton在聲明中說“我們從不曾執行這個實驗,也不需要為了瞭解一個看起來就很合理的結果而去做實驗。”
“僅管這只是假設的例子,依然描繪了真實世界面臨人工智慧驅動能力的挑戰,這也是空軍為什麼要求發展道德人工智慧的原因。“
美國空軍也否認這件模擬曾發生。
Final update at 1800 UTC, June 2
After quite a bit of media attention, the colonel has walked back all that talk of a rogue AI drone simulation, saying he "mis-spoke," and that the experiment never happened. We're told it was just a hypothetical "thought experiment."
"We've never run that experiment, nor would we need to in order to realize that this is a plausible outcome," Col Hamilton said in a statement.
"Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability and is why the Air Force is committed to the ethical development of AI."
The US Air Force has also denied the described simulation ever took place.
補充資料:
思想實驗(thought experiment)是一種思考工具,其藉由想象力嘗試以敘事的形式建立一些排除次要(或無關)背景因素的可能情況,以檢視某個概念或原則的界定是否合乎我們的直覺,繼而進行相關論證。在未有確切的想法之前,有時候它亦可以協助找出更根本的道德原則。(資料:泛科學)