The Strategic Robot Problem: Lethal Autonomous Weapons in War

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Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence (2015, background): “Russell and Norvig (2010) provide a simple example: if a robot vacuum cleaner is asked to clean up as much dirt as possible, and has an action to dump the contents of its dirt container, it will repeatedly dump and clean up the same dirt.”
Machine behaviour (2019, background): “Furthermore, although the prospect of developing autonomous weapons is highly controversial, with many in the field voicing their opposition 5,40 , if such weapons end up being deployed, then machines could determine who lives and who dies in armed conflict 41,42 .”
Impossibility and Uncertainty Theorems in AI Value Alignment (or why your AGI should not have a utility function) (2018, background): “(2)The creation of autonomous weapons systems may well be an extremely bad idea (see, eg (Roff 2014), but one of the main arguments made by their proponents is that such systems will be able to make ethical decisions in real world equivalents of trolley situations at least as well as if not better t”