![]() a threat that was thought to be confined to history books and old tales told around a campfire. However, an old threat has once again cast a shadow over the land. The inhabitants of this land generally stick to their own and try to tolerate each other as best they can, and this has been sufficient for a long time. But behind a pretense of friendship, old prejudices still simmer. Human Alliance - Farreshire, Orthshire, Aeny,īeneril in the Games Warlords: Call to Arms Warlords: Heroes Warlords 2: Rise of Demons įor nearly two centuries, the land of Beneril, has enjoyed peace. ![]() ![]() Wood Elves - Woodland, Eastern Forest, Darkwood Mountain Trolls - Battakka, Trajeck, Chogro Undead - Forest of the Damned, Dead Marshes, Dead Plains Orcs of the South - Barrock, Nartoth, Arragas ![]() Orcs of the North - Chogoth, Goroth, Thareth Night/High Elves - Isendor, Chan, Azzitha Each race or faction has three territories (except for the demons) of its own at the start of each game. To date, the open letter has been signed by AI/Robotics researchers and others.Beneril is divided into smaller territories, based around each major faction in the game. Prominent signatoriesĬlick here to view the full list of signatories Starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control. In summary, we believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity in many ways, and that the goal of the field should be to do so. Indeed, chemists and biologists have broadly supported international agreements that have successfully prohibited chemical and biological weapons, just as most physicists supported the treaties banning space-based nuclear weapons and blinding laser weapons. Just as most chemists and biologists have no interest in building chemical or biological weapons, most AI researchers have no interest in building AI weapons - and do not want others to tarnish their field by doing so, potentially creating a major public backlash against AI that curtails its future societal benefits. There are many ways in which AI can make battlefields safer for humans, especially civilians, without creating new tools for killing people. We therefore believe that a military AI arms race would not be beneficial for humanity. Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group. It will only be a matter of time until they appear on the black market and in the hands of terrorists, dictators wishing to better control their populace, warlords wishing to perpetrate ethnic cleansing, etc. Unlike nuclear weapons, they require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials, so they will become ubiquitous and cheap for all significant military powers to mass-produce. If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable, and the endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting. ![]() Many arguments have been made for and against autonomous weapons, for example that replacing human soldiers by machines is good by reducing casualties for the owner but bad by thereby lowering the threshold for going to battle. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is - practically if not legally - feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. They might include, for example, armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate people meeting certain pre-defined criteria, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions. Hosting, signature verification and list management are supported by FLI for administrative questions about this letter, please contact Max Tegmark.Ĭlick here to see this page in other languages: German Japanese RussianĪutonomous weapons select and engage targets without human intervention. Journalists who wish to see the press release may contact Toby Walsh. This open letter was announced July 28 at the opening of the IJCAI 2015 conference on July 28. ![]()
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