In a paper published by the AI Now Institute, authors Heidy Khlaaf, Sarah Myers West, and Meredith Whittaker write about military objectives, particularly intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance. While concerns about AI’s potential for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons dominate the conversation, large-scale commercial infrastructure models already pose underestimated risks to civilians. they claim.
Some companies marketing basic model-based AI to the military are proposing commercial models that are pre-trained on a set of commercial data. We’re not talking about a commercial model,” Clough told Defense One.
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Mr West said: “We’ve seen trends like this, including the introduction of fast-tracking FRB RAMP and the creation of these carve-outs to facilitate rapid adoption of generative AI use cases. ” Frameworks and high-level principles are insufficient, especially when dealing with life-or-death applications or where the impact on civilians is very significant. ”
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