Arthur Holland Michel
@WriteArthur
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Writer. Friendly reminders about spooky futures.
Joined August 2013
This is probably not the smartest time to fly a bunch of unusual aircraft over a densely populated area in the middle of the night.
On Wednesday into Thursday, there will be a night training exercise over the D.C. area involving multiple aircraft, @NORADCommand announces . Expect these to be flying around! >>
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Not so long ago, the biggest topic in defense tech was Silicon Valley’s reluctance to work with the Pentagon. The total reversal of that dynamic has been nothing short of mind blowing.
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today in “no we swear it’s not a killer robot”: artillery shells that coordinate with each other to take out multiple targets in a single barrage.
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RT @iblametom: 🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Apple ran a conference for cops, hosting at Cupertino. Called the Apple Global Police Summit, it welcomed cops fr….
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what’s next, sam altman gets a nobel in literature?.
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RT @jjaron: If machine learning can win the physics Nobel, where do we draw the line? Everything is physics if you squint hard enough.
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Least year Geoffrey Hinton made global headlines for warning about the “existential risk” posed to humanity by AI. Now he’s getting a Nobel Prize for pioneering the technology.
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Well, there it is. The first Nobel Prize for modern AI—awarded to Hinton and Hopfield in physics.
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RT @dmehro: NEW: License plate readers are enabling private investigators and police to track vehicles with political bumper stickers and h….
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This points to a very frightening and under-explored risk with autonomous mobility. Vehicles can be easily blocked and passengers are powerless to get themselves out of trouble.
🚨Warning to women in SF 🚨. I love Waymo but this was scary 😣. 2 men stopped in front of my car and demanded that I give my number. It left me stuck as the car was stalled in the street. Thankfully, it only lasted a few minutes. Ladies please be aware of this
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RT @josephfcox: New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fa….
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RT @WriteArthur: It has always bugged me that the debate on military AI portrays autonomy and accountability as binary conditions: is this….
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I’ll stop here for now. There’s a lot more detail in the paper. But also, this is very much just the seed of the idea. So I’m eager for any feedback or thoughts!.
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My hope is that this metaphor could lead to discussions—and ultimately to answers—that are more practical, more specific, and more grounded in realistic solutions.
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For any military AI system, we can ask: Will the use of this technology expand or contract the degree to which anyone in the organization will be held accountable for any harms resulting from any decisions in which it plays a role?.
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This metaphor (which draws from the cybersecurity concept known as the "attack surface") drives a new set of questions that go beyond the tired old binaries. .
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To wit: the accountability surface is the total degree to which humans in a military organization can be appropriately held accountable for harms arising from any decision in that organization.
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We need a different approach. In this paper for @CIGIonline, I proposed a new way of conceptualizing military accountability in our era of increasingly automated decisions on the use of force, using a metaphor I call "the accountability surface." .
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So treating these things as binaries fails to capture the many different varietes of military automation, and misrepresents the sociotechnical facts of automating warfare.
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