China warns US AI military use can create ‘Terminator’ world
The Straits Times
The Trump administration has sought the unconditional use of AI start-ups in the military. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING – China warned the US on March 11 that the excessive use of artificial intelligence in its military could plunge the world into a “Terminator”-like dystopian future.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has sought the unconditional use of AI start-ups in the military.
The Pentagon has confirmed Mr Elon Musk’s Grok system is cleared for use in a classified setting, and blacklisted Anthropic after it refused to allow its Claude AI model to be used for mass surveillance and autonomous lethal warfare.
“Such choices as the unrestricted application of AI by the military, using AI as a tool to violate the sovereignty of other nations, allowing AI to excessively affect war decisions, and giving algorithms the power to determine life and death, not only erode ethical restraints and accountability in wars, but also risk technological runaway,” a spokesman for China’s Defence Ministry, Mr Jiang Bin, said on March 11.
“A dystopia depicted in the American film ‘The Terminator’ could one day come true,” he said.
“The Terminator”, released in 1984 and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, depicts an apocalyptic future in which AI-controlled robots fight humans.
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