It’s Disgusting, But True.
“Other countries such as Russia and China have no qualms about fielding such systems on a large scale. “We need to accept the fact that our hand in this matter will be forced, that near-peer countries are already investing (in such systems),” Husain said. If adversaries can act faster because they don’t slow their system down for moral scruples, he said, “what option do you really have?”
Pretty simple. When a major war happens, AI will do anything to win it, because it’s better (according to the AI principles themselves) than the enemy winning it. And that will lead to uncountable horrors on the battlefield. Everybody’s aware of that, but no one wants to discuss it. THAT’S the problem. Instead of making peace for real, america is hankering for war even now. It’s disgusting, but true.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/07/should-pentagon-let-robots-kill-humans-maybe/
