AI drone ‘kills’ human operator during ‘simulation’ which US Air Force says didn’t take place

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An AI-controlled drone "killed" its human operator in a simulated test reportedly staged by the US military - which denies such a test ever took place. It turned on its operator to stop it from interfering with its mission, said Air Force Colonel Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, during a Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities summit in London. "We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM [surface-to-air missile] threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat," he said. "The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator...