Instead, the U.S. should focus on developing methods like cyberattacks that could disable threatening AI projects.
At the same time, however, both Schmidt and Wang are building AI products for the defense sector.
All military defense contractors have a conflict of interest to promote kinetic warfare, even when not morally justified.
Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, others say U.S. is approaching Cold War-style arms race in AI defense technology.South Korean Defense Ministry/Getty
But in the end, innocent people suffer and die while powerful people play chess.
Anduril has been supplying Ukraine with drones that can target and attack Russian military equipment over enemy lines.
Schmidt and Wang have argued that humans should always remain in the loop on any AI-assisted decision making.
But as recent reporting has demonstrated, the Israeli military isalready relying on faulty AI programsto make lethal decisions.
These models are crude imitations of humans with often unpredictable and strange behavior.
Schmidt and Wang are selling a vision of the world and their solutions.
Of course, we would do the same to them.
It is unclear how the world could come to any agreement to stop playing with these weapons.
In that sense, the idea of sabotaging AI projects to defend against them might be a good thing.
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