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<p>The development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) is a major leap of society towards a new era which, in theory, should be a progress for humanity. But there was no time to discern what are the possible advantages and areas in which AI could assist the development of human society, nor to carefully calculate the disadvantages and risks of its use, that we found ourselves in the midst of a raging arms race based on AI. This new technology is developing in two directions: one of assisting human decision in battle and another that receives its own decision in battle. If the first does not raise big problems, the decision-making belonging to the human factor, the second is a new element in human society and involves major risks for it. From the divine supreme right over life and death, we have gone through the regulation of the right to life and the abolition of the death penalty, and in a mad rush of development, we transcend to a world where a machine becomes “providence” through its ability to decide alone over the life and death of a human being. This article proposes a solution so that such devaluation of the human being never happens.</p>
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The development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) is a major leap of society towards a new era which, in theory, should be a progress for humanity. But there was no time to discern what are the possible advantages and areas in which AI could assist the development of human society, nor to carefully calculate the disadvantages and risks of its use, that we found ourselves in the midst of a raging arms race based on AI. This new technology is developing in two directions: one of assisting human decision in battle and another that receives its own decision in battle. If the first does not raise big problems, the decision-making belonging to the human factor, the second is a new element in human society and involves major risks for it. From the divine supreme right over life and death, we have gone through the regulation of the right to life and the abolition of the death penalty, and in a mad rush of development, we transcend to a world where a machine becomes “providence” through its ability to decide alone over the life and death of a human being. This article proposes a solution so that such devaluation of the human being never happens.

“Terminator” Factor – AI Targeting Decision-Making and the Law

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The development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) is a major leap of society towards a new era which, in theory, should be a progress for...

“Terminator” Factor – AI Targeting Decision-Making and the Law

Publicado en línea: 04 jul 2024

Páginas: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2024-0050

Palabras clave
international humanitarian law, artificial intelligence, AI decision, right to life, AI regulation

© 2024 Sabin Guţan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

“Terminator” Factor – AI Targeting Decision-Making and the Law

Publicado en línea: 04 jul 2024

Páginas: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2024-0050

Palabras claveinternational humanitarian law, artificial intelligence, AI decision, right to life, AI regulation

© 2024 Sabin Guţan, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
international humanitarian law, artificial intelligence, AI decision, right to life, AI regulation