Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says::The path to ethical AI is a “very important discussion” being held at DOD’s “very highest levels,” says service’s programs chief.
Judeo-Christian is such a bullshit made-up term to rope in multiple gullible idiots into the fold.
It’s for people that want to go full “Christians = good, other religions = bad” but know that saying “Jews = bad” won’t go down well.
Not to rope gullible people into the fold, but for attempt to fight anti-semitism, after WWII.
Perhaps in the past that’s how it was used. But not in this situation.
They basically share the Old Testament as part of their holy book. So it is not total bullshit.
As an ex-christian, let me tell you, christians cannot even agree or follow a consistent moral code among themselves, nevermind including whole other religions. Catholics vs evangelicals is a whole thing. This is total bulshit.
As I understand it, of the branches, the Air Force is the worst for neocon evangelicals. What a quote! It gives me shivers.
our society is a Judeo-Christian society and we have a moral compass.
And here I thought the US was a secular country. Very worrisome that some government employees are using these words.
is there nottheonion on Lemmy yet? because this belongs on there. jfc what a time to be alive
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Is there anything more annoying than Christianity and christians? Self righteous beyond belief.
If we exclude the overall negative impact Christianity has had to humanity over hundreds of years… maybe vegans?
Well I just lost some faith in the United States Air Force. Now I’m worried if we can trust them with General Electric 2.1 megaton hydrogen bombs. The USAF has more than a few.
The US military has a wide range of generals, all the way from people who can barely stop themselves from dribbling while staring at a wall for hours as entertainment, to actual comptent ones.
You had faith in the USAF?
For <checks> approaching eighty years, they’ve been pretty good at not dropping any nuclear weapons, even those bombs had a very simple launch code to arm. The rise of Christian Nationalism in the US armed forces has been a concern since the new century and the 9/11 attacks (and subsequent PATRIOT act). I’m not sure Judeo-Christian values and Artificial Intelligence is a benign mix.
weeeeeellllll…
Yes, because the Old Testament is all peace and love and kumbaya.
Another dipshit military lifer inserting subjective religious arrogance - whatever religion it may be - into his spiel, details at eleven.
I think if you taught ethics to an AI based on the Bible and gave it the power it would quickly destroy the world. Oh that’s right, they made a bunch of sci-fi movies about that starring an Austrian body builder.
“You see, first thing we did was teach it about the Bible and its teachings. Of course none of that Roman Catholic shit.”
We taught it the Bible*
*King James Version
No True Christian would ever activate a fully automated sentry killbot that doesn’t use at least one of its compute cores to pray to the Almighty on a loop.
Welp time to strip him of his rank, he’s an idiot.
Kinda sounds like they mean it follows their personal ethics and religious rules more closely than others, not that it’s actually more ethical.
Ethics are entirely subjective.
I would argue that any system that follows the rules of a religious society is deeply unethical.
I read the article and this is clearly a guy who watched Terminator and thought, ‘Well hold on that sounds fantastic if we just programmed in a rule where it’s not allowed to violate its programming or misunderstood what we want.’
“We told it to shoot bad guys. Why is it shooting at us?”
Legit 😂
So… robocop.
So long as it follows them better than humans do. Though then again, I’m sure Christ wouldn’t approve of some of the things the Pentagon will want to do with said AI… So…
Yeah maybe AI wont see the children carrying water jugs as priority kill targets.
It depends. Do those children believe in another god or are they possibly wearing clothing made of more than one kind of thread? We might need more bombs.
This is what AI would like them to believe
A lot researchers a long time ago used to say that in order to judge AI, they would have to get it to pass a Turing Test in order for us to figure out if it just as intelligent or more intelligent than us.
I always enjoyed the idea that AI will quickly fly right over our heads and our ability to identify it that it will purposely make itself appear dumb or dumber than us while it figures out how to deal with us.
AI passes the Turing test long before it becomes AI. Are you thinking of the number of tests we have for AGI? (e. g. build flat-packed furniture from the instructions or clean and load a coffee machine to make coffee)
Malicious AI typically comes down to bad programming which includes deceptive AI, which is easy to do, given LLMs and the obscurity of natural language. This is also why AI is not really ready for public use (except as a toy or creative tool) since it’s very easy to give AI instructions that it will interpret to yield poor results (like AI attack drones killing their commander in simulation).
He would have only said Judeo, but thought about it more given the popularity of what Netanyahu is doing. 🧌
Is this satire? If not, good lord.
These guys and everyone in upper military and government need to just die and the ensuing chaos will be a better form of government without even trying. That’s how fucked up this sounds.
…That doesn’t instill me with a lot of confidence.
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hypothesis: Like, no, that’s obviously wrong; either the headline is trash or the general made a whole tossed salad with mango sauce out of whatever the people working on it said. (stated before further investigation; stay tuned)
zoats@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
you could work for politifact with how dumb this attempt at “fact checking” was
the headline is absolutely representative of what he implied and you are the one being misleading by claiming that it isn’t.
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Folks can go watch it and see. No need to be a butt about it.
LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for verifying the facts.
brsrklf@compuverse.uk 11 months ago
This is, unfortunately, how many, many very religious people think. And it’s not only insulting for everyone not following their beliefs, but also terrifying in my opinion.
People who believe their god is the only thing that makes them moral aren’t really moral. Because then they never consider why it’s important to, you know, not be an asshole. It’s just compliance.
And the terrifying part is that since their only frame of reference regarding what “good” is would be whatever their religion dictates, it’s always on the verge of breaking completely. You just need to listen to the wrong interpretation at the wrong moment in your life.