The have become the great arms revolution of the last five years thanks to his leading role in the Ukrainian war. Unmanned vehicles aim to mark a before and after in modern war doctrine.
Right now, most drones are controlled by human pilots. However, he is making, little by little, the autonomous drones make their way.
Although it is currently a very incipient technology, the reality is that More than a hundred American and European startups are developing software platforms for drones.
This advance raises a debate: Can drones be moral when deciding whether to kill a person or not? Experts do not agree on the answer to that difficult question.
In statements to the British media , Zee Talatan academic specializing in machine learning at the Faculty of Computing at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, believes that generative AI systemswhich are still machines, They do not have the capacity to make moral decisions.
The reason, according to the expert, is that AI systems They are trained with enormous amounts of data that allow them to build a probabilistic model of what is the most likely next word or phrase in a sequence. “If you have a machine that is probabilistic in nature, it will tend to the most likely response in a situation. Do we believe that morality is governed by probabilistic notions?Talat has expressed in this regard.
“The question is whether we understand morality well enough to codify it”
For its part, Andrew Rogoyskifrom the Institute for Human-Centered AI at the University of Surrey (England), has highlighted that “Morality is deeply complexthe subject of debate, culturally shaped and something that most human beings never fully understandnot even for themselves.”
“Perhaps the real question is whether we understand morality well enough to codify it. Until we do, we cannot expect machines to embody something that we ourselves cannot clearly articulate,” Rogoyski added.
