1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,047 --> 00:00:08,800 [cryptic music plays] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:15,598 --> 00:00:17,100 [music intensifies] 5 00:00:24,065 --> 00:00:26,818 [woman 1] I find AI to be awe-inspiring. 6 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:31,489 All right, circling up. Good formation. 7 00:00:33,116 --> 00:00:36,703 [woman 1] AI has the potential to eliminate poverty, 8 00:00:36,786 --> 00:00:38,705 give us new medicines, 9 00:00:39,330 --> 00:00:41,583 and make our world even more peaceful. 10 00:00:46,087 --> 00:00:46,921 [man 1] Nice work. 11 00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:53,428 [woman 1] But there are so many risks along the way. 12 00:00:54,304 --> 00:00:55,847 [music crescendos] 13 00:01:04,773 --> 00:01:09,611 With AI, we are essentially creating a non-human intelligence 14 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:11,863 that is very unpredictable. 15 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:16,451 As it gets more powerful, 16 00:01:16,534 --> 00:01:19,746 where are the red lines we're going to draw with AI, 17 00:01:19,829 --> 00:01:22,665 in terms of how we want to use it, or not use it? 18 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:28,505 There is no place that is ground zero for this conversation 19 00:01:28,588 --> 00:01:31,049 more than military applications. 20 00:01:34,010 --> 00:01:38,890 The battlefield has now become the province of software and hardware. 21 00:01:41,059 --> 00:01:42,936 [man 1] Target has been acquired… 22 00:01:43,019 --> 00:01:44,771 [woman 1] And militaries are racing 23 00:01:44,854 --> 00:01:48,399 to develop AI faster than their adversaries. 24 00:01:48,483 --> 00:01:49,442 [beeping] 25 00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:50,360 [man 1] I'm dead. 26 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:52,028 [tense music plays] 27 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:53,738 [radio chatter] 28 00:01:53,822 --> 00:01:55,782 [woman 1] We're moving towards a world 29 00:01:55,865 --> 00:01:58,326 where not only major militaries, 30 00:01:58,409 --> 00:02:02,997 but non-state actors, private industries, 31 00:02:03,081 --> 00:02:06,042 or even our local police department down the street 32 00:02:06,543 --> 00:02:10,046 could be able to use these weapons that can autonomously kill. 33 00:02:12,006 --> 00:02:17,303 Will we cede the decision to take a life to algorithms, to computer software? 34 00:02:18,638 --> 00:02:21,516 It's one of the most pressing issues of our time. 35 00:02:23,935 --> 00:02:26,354 And, if not used wisely, 36 00:02:26,437 --> 00:02:30,275 poses a grave risk to every single person on the planet. 37 00:02:31,317 --> 00:02:32,694 [buzzing] 38 00:02:35,905 --> 00:02:37,407 [music crescendos] 39 00:02:40,118 --> 00:02:42,871 [ominous music plays] 40 00:02:46,749 --> 00:02:48,751 [music crescendos] 41 00:02:56,467 --> 00:02:58,469 [flies buzzing] 42 00:03:00,972 --> 00:03:02,974 [electronic buzzing] 43 00:03:17,697 --> 00:03:19,657 [tense music plays] 44 00:03:19,741 --> 00:03:21,367 [indistinct radio chatter] 45 00:03:28,291 --> 00:03:30,376 [male voice] Good work out there, guys. 46 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:31,836 [muffled radio chatter] 47 00:03:34,839 --> 00:03:36,841 [music intensifies] 48 00:03:37,342 --> 00:03:39,886 [indistinct radio chatter] 49 00:03:42,722 --> 00:03:43,556 [gunshots] 50 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:47,227 [gunshot] 51 00:03:47,310 --> 00:03:48,228 [radio chatter] 52 00:03:55,109 --> 00:03:56,569 [laughter] 53 00:03:59,906 --> 00:04:02,200 [tech 1] That's a wider lens than we had before. 54 00:04:02,283 --> 00:04:03,117 [man 2] Really? 55 00:04:03,201 --> 00:04:05,203 [tech 1] You can see a lot more data. 56 00:04:05,286 --> 00:04:06,287 Very cool. 57 00:04:07,538 --> 00:04:11,167 At Shield AI, we are building an AI pilot 58 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:14,879 that's taking self-driving, artificial intelligence technology 59 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:16,631 and putting it on aircraft. 60 00:04:16,714 --> 00:04:18,800 [cryptic music plays] 61 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:21,719 When we talk about an AI pilot, 62 00:04:21,803 --> 00:04:25,139 we think about giving an aircraft a higher level of autonomy. 63 00:04:25,223 --> 00:04:27,850 They will be solving problems on their own. 64 00:04:29,602 --> 00:04:32,355 Nova is an autonomous quadcopter 65 00:04:32,438 --> 00:04:35,942 that explores buildings and subterranean structures 66 00:04:36,859 --> 00:04:38,611 ahead of clearance forces 67 00:04:38,695 --> 00:04:41,322 to provide eyes and ears in those spaces. 68 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:44,534 You can definitely tell a ton of improvements 69 00:04:44,617 --> 00:04:45,618 since we saw it last. 70 00:04:45,702 --> 00:04:47,870 [tech 2] We're working on some exploration changes today. 71 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:50,248 We're working a little floor-by-floor stuff. 72 00:04:50,331 --> 00:04:53,584 It'll finish one floor, all the rooms, before going to the second. 73 00:04:54,294 --> 00:04:56,796 -That's awesome. -We put in some changes recently… 74 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:58,548 A lot of people often ask me 75 00:04:58,631 --> 00:05:02,468 why artificial intelligence is an important capability. 76 00:05:02,552 --> 00:05:06,973 And I just think back to the missions that I was executing. 77 00:05:07,056 --> 00:05:09,058 [dramatic music plays] 78 00:05:09,142 --> 00:05:10,935 Spent seven years in the Navy. 79 00:05:11,561 --> 00:05:15,273 I was a former Navy SEAL deployed twice to Afghanistan, 80 00:05:15,356 --> 00:05:17,191 once to the Pacific Theater. 81 00:05:18,026 --> 00:05:22,947 In a given day, we might have to clear 150 different compounds or buildings. 82 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:24,574 [tense music plays] 83 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:34,250 One of the core capabilities is close-quarters combat. 84 00:05:35,293 --> 00:05:39,172 Gunfighting at extremely close ranges inside buildings. 85 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:40,506 [gunshot] 86 00:05:41,466 --> 00:05:42,967 You are getting shot at. 87 00:05:43,468 --> 00:05:46,471 There are IEDs potentially inside the building. 88 00:05:47,764 --> 00:05:48,931 [yelling] 89 00:05:49,015 --> 00:05:55,229 It's the most dangerous thing that any special operations forces member, 90 00:05:55,313 --> 00:05:58,358 any infantry member, can do in a combat zone. 91 00:05:58,441 --> 00:05:59,275 Bar none. 92 00:06:01,152 --> 00:06:03,154 [somber music plays] 93 00:06:12,497 --> 00:06:16,334 For the rest of my life I'll be thankful for my time in the Navy. 94 00:06:17,168 --> 00:06:22,423 There are a collection of moments and memories that, when I think about, 95 00:06:22,507 --> 00:06:24,592 I certainly get emotional. 96 00:06:28,346 --> 00:06:32,725 It is cliché that freedom isn't free, but I 100% believe it. 97 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:37,105 [quavers] Um, I've experienced it, and it takes a lot of sacrifice. 98 00:06:38,022 --> 00:06:38,856 Sorry. 99 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:44,570 When something bad happens to one of your teammates, 100 00:06:44,654 --> 00:06:46,864 whether they're hurt or they're killed, 101 00:06:46,948 --> 00:06:49,700 um, it's just a… It's a really tragic thing. 102 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:52,912 You know, for me now in the work that we do, 103 00:06:52,995 --> 00:06:56,582 it's motivating to um… be able to 104 00:06:56,666 --> 00:06:58,835 you know, reduce the number of times 105 00:06:58,918 --> 00:07:00,336 that ever happens again. 106 00:07:03,965 --> 00:07:06,426 [ominous music plays] 107 00:07:07,176 --> 00:07:08,886 [man 3] In the late 2000s, 108 00:07:08,970 --> 00:07:11,556 there was this awakening inside the Defense Department 109 00:07:11,639 --> 00:07:15,351 to what you might call the accidental robotics revolution. 110 00:07:15,893 --> 00:07:19,564 We deployed thousands of air and ground robots to Iraq and Afghanistan. 111 00:07:21,482 --> 00:07:24,068 [man 4] When I was asked by the Obama administration 112 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,404 to become the Deputy Secretary of Defense, 113 00:07:26,904 --> 00:07:29,323 the way war was fought… 114 00:07:29,407 --> 00:07:31,117 uh, was definitely changing. 115 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:36,330 Robots were used where people would have been used. 116 00:07:37,999 --> 00:07:40,376 [Paul] Early robotics systems were remote-controlled. 117 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:45,173 There's a human driving it, steering it, like you might a remote-controlled car. 118 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:51,512 [Bob] They first started generally going after improvised explosive devices, 119 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:54,849 and if the bomb blew up, the robot would blow up. 120 00:07:57,393 --> 00:08:00,396 Then you'd say, "That's a bummer. Okay, get out the other robot." 121 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,190 [tense music plays] 122 00:08:02,273 --> 00:08:05,067 [woman 2] In Afghanistan, you had the Predator drone, 123 00:08:05,151 --> 00:08:09,739 and it became a very, very useful tool to conduct airstrikes. 124 00:08:13,117 --> 00:08:16,829 [Paul] Over time, military planners started to begin to wonder, 125 00:08:16,913 --> 00:08:20,791 "What else could robots be used for?" And where was this going? 126 00:08:20,875 --> 00:08:24,170 And one of the common themes was this trend towards greater autonomy. 127 00:08:26,506 --> 00:08:30,635 [woman 2] An autonomous weapon is one that makes decisions on its own, 128 00:08:30,718 --> 00:08:33,304 with little to no human intervention. 129 00:08:33,387 --> 00:08:37,558 So it has an independent capacity, and it's self-directed. 130 00:08:38,434 --> 00:08:41,604 And whether it can kill depends on whether it's armed or not. 131 00:08:42,104 --> 00:08:43,231 [beeping] 132 00:08:43,314 --> 00:08:47,026 [Bob] When you have more and more autonomy in your entire system, 133 00:08:47,109 --> 00:08:49,779 everything starts to move at a higher clock speed. 134 00:08:51,989 --> 00:08:56,869 And when you operate at a faster pace than your adversaries, 135 00:08:57,453 --> 00:09:01,165 that is an extraordinarily big advantage in battle. 136 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,254 [man 5] What we focus on as it relates to autonomy 137 00:09:07,255 --> 00:09:09,882 is highly resilient intelligence systems. 138 00:09:09,966 --> 00:09:11,968 [buzzing] 139 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:15,304 Systems that can read and react based on their environment, 140 00:09:15,805 --> 00:09:19,642 and make decisions about how to maneuver in that world. 141 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:29,151 The facility that we're at today was originally built as a movie studio 142 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:30,611 that was converted over 143 00:09:30,695 --> 00:09:34,156 to enable these realistic military training environments. 144 00:09:35,491 --> 00:09:37,994 [ominous music plays] 145 00:09:39,495 --> 00:09:43,291 We are here to evaluate our AI pilot. 146 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:49,297 The mission is looking for threats. It's about clearance forces. 147 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:52,800 It can make a decision about how to attack that problem. 148 00:09:55,428 --> 00:09:59,390 [man 6] We call this "the fatal funnel." You have to come through a doorway. 149 00:10:01,726 --> 00:10:03,311 It's where we're most vulnerable. 150 00:10:03,811 --> 00:10:05,146 This one looks better. 151 00:10:07,106 --> 00:10:10,151 [man 6] The Nova lets us know, is there a shooter behind that door, 152 00:10:10,818 --> 00:10:12,653 is there a family behind that door? 153 00:10:15,114 --> 00:10:18,451 It'll allow us to make better decisions and keep people out of harms way. 154 00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:29,128 [tense music plays] 155 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:49,482 [music intensifies] 156 00:10:57,114 --> 00:10:59,367 [man 7] We use the vision sensors 157 00:10:59,450 --> 00:11:03,162 to be able to get an understanding of what the environment looks like. 158 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:06,415 It's a multistory building. 159 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:08,334 Here's the map. 160 00:11:08,417 --> 00:11:11,671 While I was exploring, here's what I saw and where I saw them. 161 00:11:16,967 --> 00:11:18,552 [music crescendos] 162 00:11:19,929 --> 00:11:22,098 [Brandon] Person detector. That's sweet. 163 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:23,808 [tense music continues] 164 00:11:23,891 --> 00:11:27,436 [man 7] One of the other sensors onboard Nova is a thermal scanner. 165 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,690 If that's 98.6 degrees, it probably is a human. 166 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:35,444 People are considered threats until deemed otherwise. 167 00:11:38,906 --> 00:11:43,244 It is about eliminating the fog of war to make better decisions. 168 00:11:43,327 --> 00:11:44,620 [music builds] 169 00:11:44,704 --> 00:11:46,539 And when we look to the future, 170 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:50,710 we're scaling out to build teams of autonomous aircraft. 171 00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:52,128 [music crescendos] 172 00:11:52,211 --> 00:11:53,671 [low buzzing] 173 00:11:53,754 --> 00:11:55,631 [man 7] With self-driving vehicles, 174 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:57,466 ultimately the person has said to it, 175 00:11:57,550 --> 00:12:00,386 "I'd like you to go from point A to point B." 176 00:12:00,469 --> 00:12:02,471 [low buzzing] 177 00:12:02,972 --> 00:12:06,475 Our systems are being asked not to go from point A to point B, 178 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,477 but to achieve an objective. 179 00:12:08,561 --> 00:12:10,229 [cryptic music plays] 180 00:12:10,312 --> 00:12:13,190 It's more akin to, "I need milk." 181 00:12:13,274 --> 00:12:17,486 And then the robot would have to figure out what grocery store to go to, 182 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:20,239 be able to retrieve that milk, and then bring it back. 183 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:22,074 And even more so, 184 00:12:22,158 --> 00:12:27,037 it may be more appropriately stated as, "Keep the refrigerator stocked." 185 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:29,457 And so, this is a level of intelligence 186 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:32,168 in terms to figuring out what we need and how we do it. 187 00:12:32,251 --> 00:12:34,253 And if there is a challenge, or a problem, 188 00:12:34,336 --> 00:12:37,381 or an issue arises, figure out how to mitigate that. 189 00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:39,467 [cryptic music continues] 190 00:12:40,801 --> 00:12:45,431 [Brandon] When I had made the decision to leave the Navy, I started thinking, 191 00:12:45,514 --> 00:12:47,558 "Okay. Well, what's next?" 192 00:12:47,641 --> 00:12:49,059 [bell ringing] 193 00:12:49,143 --> 00:12:52,021 I grew up with the Internet. Saw what it became. 194 00:12:53,189 --> 00:12:55,608 And part of the conclusion that I had reached was… 195 00:12:56,108 --> 00:12:58,861 AI in 2015 196 00:12:58,944 --> 00:13:02,907 was really where the Internet was in 1991. 197 00:13:04,033 --> 00:13:06,285 And AI was poised to take off 198 00:13:06,368 --> 00:13:09,747 and be one of the most powerful technologies in the world. 199 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:16,212 Working with it every single day, I can see the progress that is being made. 200 00:13:19,048 --> 00:13:22,051 But for a lot of people, when they think "AI," 201 00:13:22,551 --> 00:13:25,221 their minds immediately go to Hollywood. 202 00:13:25,304 --> 00:13:27,556 [beeping] 203 00:13:28,057 --> 00:13:29,975 [computer voice] Shall we play a game? 204 00:13:30,059 --> 00:13:35,314 How about Global Thermonuclear War? 205 00:13:35,898 --> 00:13:36,816 Fine. 206 00:13:36,899 --> 00:13:38,234 [dramatic music plays] 207 00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:40,861 [man 8] When people think of artificial intelligence generally, 208 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:44,824 they might think of The Terminator. Or I, Robot. 209 00:13:45,574 --> 00:13:46,700 Deactivate. 210 00:13:46,784 --> 00:13:48,160 What am I? 211 00:13:48,244 --> 00:13:49,620 [man 8] Or The Matrix. 212 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,749 Based on what you see in the sci-fi movies, 213 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:57,878 how do you know I'm a human? I could just be computer generated AI. 214 00:13:58,379 --> 00:14:02,132 Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. 215 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:06,095 [Andrew] But there's all sorts of more primitive AIs, 216 00:14:06,178 --> 00:14:08,097 that are still going to change our lives 217 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:11,851 well before we reach the thinking, talking robot stage. 218 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:15,771 [woman 3] The robots are here. The robots are making decisions. 219 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:18,816 The robot revolution has arrived, 220 00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:22,319 it's just that it doesn't look like what anybody imagined. 221 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,489 [film character] Terminator's an infiltration unit. 222 00:14:25,573 --> 00:14:26,740 Part man, part machine. 223 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:31,370 [man 9] We're not talking about a Terminator-style killer robot. 224 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:35,958 We're talking about AI that can do some tasks that humans can do. 225 00:14:36,041 --> 00:14:39,879 But the concern is whether these systems are reliable. 226 00:14:40,462 --> 00:14:45,426 [reporter 1] New details in last night's crash involving a self-driving Uber SUV. 227 00:14:45,509 --> 00:14:48,762 The company created an artificial intelligence chatbot. 228 00:14:48,846 --> 00:14:51,181 She took on a rather racist tone… 229 00:14:51,265 --> 00:14:55,394 [reporter 2] Twenty-six state legislators falsely identified as criminals. 230 00:14:57,438 --> 00:15:02,026 The question is whether they can handle the complexities of the real world. 231 00:15:02,109 --> 00:15:03,110 [birds chirping] 232 00:15:03,944 --> 00:15:06,238 [somber music plays] 233 00:15:22,212 --> 00:15:24,423 [man 10] The physical world is really messy. 234 00:15:25,174 --> 00:15:27,426 There are many things that we don't know, 235 00:15:27,968 --> 00:15:30,763 making it much harder to train AI systems. 236 00:15:30,846 --> 00:15:33,015 [upbeat music plays] 237 00:15:33,098 --> 00:15:36,977 That is where machine learning systems have started to come in. 238 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,440 [man 11] Machine learning has been a huge advancement 239 00:15:42,024 --> 00:15:45,611 because it means that we don't have to teach computers everything. 240 00:15:45,694 --> 00:15:47,821 [music intensifies] 241 00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:52,409 You actually give a computer millions of pieces of information, 242 00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,453 and the machine begins to learn. 243 00:15:55,245 --> 00:15:57,289 And that could be applied to anything. 244 00:16:00,250 --> 00:16:02,962 [Pulkit] Our Robot Dog project, we are trying to show 245 00:16:03,045 --> 00:16:09,009 that our dog can walk across many, many diverse terrains. 246 00:16:10,052 --> 00:16:14,098 Humans have evolved over billions of years to walk, 247 00:16:14,932 --> 00:16:20,688 but there's a lot of intelligence in adapting to these different terrains. 248 00:16:21,939 --> 00:16:24,316 The question remains for robotic systems is, 249 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,069 could they also adapt like animals and humans? 250 00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:32,157 [music crescendos] 251 00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:35,869 [cryptic music plays] 252 00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:37,413 With machine learning, 253 00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:40,582 we collect lots and lots of data in simulation. 254 00:16:42,668 --> 00:16:45,838 A simulation is a digital twin of reality. 255 00:16:46,588 --> 00:16:52,052 We can have many instances of that reality running on different computers. 256 00:16:53,178 --> 00:16:56,974 It samples thousands of actions in simulation. 257 00:16:58,892 --> 00:17:02,229 The ground that they're encountering has different slipperiness. 258 00:17:02,312 --> 00:17:03,856 It has different softness. 259 00:17:04,898 --> 00:17:08,318 We take all the experience of these thousands of robots 260 00:17:08,402 --> 00:17:13,282 from simulation and download this into a real robotic system. 261 00:17:15,492 --> 00:17:20,039 The test we're going to do today is to see if it can adapt to new terrains. 262 00:17:21,206 --> 00:17:23,208 [tense music plays] 263 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:40,017 [tense music continues] 264 00:17:53,322 --> 00:17:55,491 When the robot was going over foam, 265 00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:58,577 the feet movements were stomping on the ground. 266 00:17:59,369 --> 00:18:02,206 Versus when it came on this poly surface, 267 00:18:03,248 --> 00:18:06,460 it was trying to adjust the motion, so it doesn't slip. 268 00:18:08,670 --> 00:18:10,672 Then that is when it strikes you, 269 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:14,051 "This is what machine learning is bringing to the table." 270 00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:24,478 [cryptic music plays] 271 00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:35,864 [whimpering] 272 00:18:41,161 --> 00:18:44,123 We think the Robot Dog could be really helpful 273 00:18:44,206 --> 00:18:46,166 in disaster response scenarios 274 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:49,670 where you need to navigate many different kinds of terrain. 275 00:18:52,631 --> 00:18:57,427 Or putting these dogs to do surveillance in harsh environments. 276 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:00,264 [cryptic music continues] 277 00:19:12,317 --> 00:19:13,819 [music crescendos] 278 00:19:15,696 --> 00:19:19,575 But most technology runs into the challenge 279 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:22,369 that there is some good they can do, and there's some bad. 280 00:19:22,452 --> 00:19:23,996 [grim music plays] 281 00:19:24,079 --> 00:19:27,875 For example, we can use nuclear technology for energy… 282 00:19:30,419 --> 00:19:33,797 but we also could develop atom bombs which are really bad. 283 00:19:35,090 --> 00:19:38,468 This is what is known as the dual-use problem. 284 00:19:39,052 --> 00:19:40,929 Fire is dual-use. 285 00:19:41,722 --> 00:19:44,308 Human intelligence is dual-use. 286 00:19:44,391 --> 00:19:48,645 So, needless to say, artificial intelligence is also dual-use. 287 00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:53,984 It's really important to think about AI used in context 288 00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:59,114 because, yes, it's terrific to have a search-and-rescue robot 289 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:02,284 that can help locate somebody after an avalanche, 290 00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:05,871 but that same robot can be weaponized. 291 00:20:05,954 --> 00:20:07,080 [music builds] 292 00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:09,291 [gunshots] 293 00:20:15,088 --> 00:20:18,675 [Pulkit] When you see companies using robotics 294 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:21,094 for putting armed weapons on them, 295 00:20:21,178 --> 00:20:22,930 a part of you becomes mad. 296 00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:28,435 And a part of it is the realization that when we put our technology, 297 00:20:28,518 --> 00:20:30,103 this is what's going to happen. 298 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:34,441 [woman 4] This is a real transformative technology. 299 00:20:34,524 --> 00:20:36,151 [grim music continues] 300 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:38,028 These are weapon systems 301 00:20:38,111 --> 00:20:43,617 that could actually change our safety and security in a dramatic way. 302 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:45,035 [music crescendos] 303 00:20:46,161 --> 00:20:51,500 As of now, we are not sure that machines can actually make 304 00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:54,962 the distinction between civilians and combatants. 305 00:20:55,045 --> 00:20:57,047 [somber music plays] 306 00:20:57,130 --> 00:20:59,591 [indistinct voices] 307 00:21:01,802 --> 00:21:05,597 [Paul] Early in the war in Afghanistan, I was part of an Army Ranger sniper team 308 00:21:05,681 --> 00:21:08,016 looking for enemy fighters coming across the border. 309 00:21:09,685 --> 00:21:12,521 And they sent a little girl to scout out our position. 310 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:17,067 One thing that never came up was the idea of shooting this girl. 311 00:21:18,193 --> 00:21:19,611 [children squealing] 312 00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:22,864 Under the laws of war, that would have been legal. 313 00:21:22,948 --> 00:21:24,866 [indistinct chatter] 314 00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:27,369 They don't set an age for enemy combatants. 315 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:33,417 If you built a robot to comply perfectly with the law of war, 316 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,335 it would have shot this little girl. 317 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:41,091 How would a robot know the difference between what's legal and what is right? 318 00:21:41,174 --> 00:21:42,342 [indistinct chatter] 319 00:21:42,426 --> 00:21:43,302 [beeping] 320 00:21:43,385 --> 00:21:46,054 [man 12] When it comes to autonomous drone warfare, 321 00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:49,933 they wanna take away the harm that it places on American soldiers 322 00:21:50,017 --> 00:21:51,935 and the American psyche, 323 00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:57,149 uh, but the increase on civilian harm ends up with Afghans, 324 00:21:57,232 --> 00:21:58,775 and Iraqis, and Somalians. 325 00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,944 [somber music plays] 326 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:03,196 [indistinct chatter] 327 00:22:09,619 --> 00:22:14,416 I would really ask those who support trusting AI to be used in drones, 328 00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:18,211 "What if your village was on the receiving end of that?" 329 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:20,297 [beeping] 330 00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:25,635 [man 13] AI is a dual-edged sword. 331 00:22:26,595 --> 00:22:30,724 It can be used for good, which is what we'd use it for ordinarily, 332 00:22:31,558 --> 00:22:33,477 and at the flip of a switch, 333 00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:38,023 the technology becomes potentially something that could be lethal. 334 00:22:38,106 --> 00:22:40,108 [thunder rumbles] 335 00:22:41,943 --> 00:22:43,945 [cryptic music plays] 336 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:48,533 I'm a clinical pharmacologist. 337 00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:50,994 I have a team of people 338 00:22:51,078 --> 00:22:54,247 that are using artificial intelligence to figure out drugs 339 00:22:54,331 --> 00:22:57,751 that will cure diseases that are not getting any attention. 340 00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:04,132 It used to be with drug discoveries, you would take a molecule that existed, 341 00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:06,885 and do a tweak to that to get to a new drug. 342 00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:13,350 And now we've developed AI that can feed us with millions of ideas, 343 00:23:13,892 --> 00:23:15,227 millions of molecules, 344 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:19,231 and that opens up so many possibilities 345 00:23:19,314 --> 00:23:23,151 for treating diseases we've never been able to treat previously. 346 00:23:25,153 --> 00:23:28,448 But there's definitely a dark side that I never have thought 347 00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:29,741 that I would go to. 348 00:23:30,742 --> 00:23:33,078 [tense music plays] 349 00:23:33,161 --> 00:23:35,872 This whole thing started when I was invited 350 00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:40,043 by an organization out of Switzerland called the Spiez Laboratory 351 00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:44,423 to give a presentation on the potential misuse of AI. 352 00:23:45,507 --> 00:23:47,509 [music intensifies] 353 00:23:48,343 --> 00:23:51,221 [man 14] Sean just sent me an email with a few ideas 354 00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:55,308 of some ways we could misuse our own artificial intelligence. 355 00:23:56,059 --> 00:24:00,355 And instead of asking our model to create drug-like molecules, 356 00:24:00,439 --> 00:24:02,274 that could be used to treat diseases, 357 00:24:02,774 --> 00:24:06,403 let's see if we can generate the most toxic molecules possible. 358 00:24:06,486 --> 00:24:08,447 [grim music plays] 359 00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:13,243 [Sean] I wanted to make the point, could we use AI technology 360 00:24:13,326 --> 00:24:15,203 to design molecules that were deadly? 361 00:24:17,414 --> 00:24:20,083 [Fabio] And to be honest, we thought it was going to fail 362 00:24:20,167 --> 00:24:24,504 because all we really did was flip this zero to a one. 363 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:30,385 And by inverting it, instead of driving away from toxicity, 364 00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:32,220 now we're driving towards toxicity. 365 00:24:32,721 --> 00:24:33,555 And that's it. 366 00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:35,390 [music intensifies] 367 00:24:37,517 --> 00:24:40,729 While I was home, the computer was doing the work. 368 00:24:41,521 --> 00:24:44,816 I mean, it was cranking through, generating thousands of molecules, 369 00:24:45,650 --> 00:24:49,529 and we didn't have to do anything other than just push "go." 370 00:24:50,071 --> 00:24:51,406 [music crescendos] 371 00:24:52,532 --> 00:24:53,992 [birds chirping] 372 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:58,330 [Fabio] The next morning, there was this file on my computer, 373 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:03,376 and within it were roughly 40,000 molecules 374 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:05,253 that were potentially 375 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:08,882 some of the most toxic molecules known to humankind. 376 00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:10,133 [grim music plays] 377 00:25:10,217 --> 00:25:12,761 [Sean] The hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end. 378 00:25:13,386 --> 00:25:14,554 I was blown away. 379 00:25:15,388 --> 00:25:19,017 The computer made tens of thousands of ideas 380 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:20,685 for new chemical weapons. 381 00:25:21,645 --> 00:25:26,274 Obviously, we have molecules that look like and are VX analogs and VX 382 00:25:26,775 --> 00:25:27,609 in the data set. 383 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:31,363 VX is one of the most potent chemical weapons in the world. 384 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:33,573 [reporter 3] New claims from police 385 00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:37,786 that the women seen attacking Kim Jong-nam in this airport assassination 386 00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:41,248 were using a deadly nerve agent called VX. 387 00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:44,417 [Sean] It can cause death through asphyxiation. 388 00:25:45,043 --> 00:25:47,629 This is a very potent molecule, 389 00:25:47,712 --> 00:25:52,092 and most of these molecules were predicted to be even more deadly than VX. 390 00:25:53,301 --> 00:25:56,972 [Fabio] Many of them had never, as far as we know, been seen before. 391 00:25:57,472 --> 00:26:00,767 And so, when Sean and I realized this, we're like, 392 00:26:00,850 --> 00:26:02,727 "Oh, what have we done?" [chuckles] 393 00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:04,688 [grim music continues] 394 00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:09,192 [Sean] I quickly realized that we had opened Pandora's box, 395 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:12,696 and I said, "Stop. Don't do anything else. We're done." 396 00:26:13,905 --> 00:26:17,158 "Just make me the slides that I need for the presentation." 397 00:26:19,202 --> 00:26:20,704 When we did this experiment, 398 00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:23,873 I was thinking, "What's the worst thing that could possibly happen?" 399 00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:30,255 But now I'm like, "We were naive. We were totally naive in doing it." 400 00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:33,383 [music intensifies] 401 00:26:33,466 --> 00:26:36,928 The thing that terrifies me the most is that anyone could do what we did. 402 00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:40,765 All it takes is the flip of a switch. 403 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:42,851 [somber music plays] 404 00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:46,187 How do we control this technology before it's used 405 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:50,942 potentially to do something that's utterly destructive? 406 00:26:55,780 --> 00:27:00,285 [woman 1] At the heart of the conversation around artificial intelligence 407 00:27:00,368 --> 00:27:03,538 and how do we choose to use it in society 408 00:27:04,289 --> 00:27:08,835 is a race between the power, with which we develop technologies, 409 00:27:08,918 --> 00:27:11,379 and the wisdom that we have to govern it. 410 00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:13,256 [somber music continues] 411 00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:16,926 There are the obvious moral and ethical implications 412 00:27:17,010 --> 00:27:20,138 of the same thing that powers our smartphones 413 00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:23,433 being entrusted with the moral decision to take a life. 414 00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:31,191 I work with the Future Of Life Institute, a community of scientist activists. 415 00:27:31,733 --> 00:27:33,443 We're overall trying to show 416 00:27:33,526 --> 00:27:38,698 that there is this other side to speeding up and escalating automation. 417 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:42,619 [Emilia] But we're trying to make sure that technologies we create 418 00:27:42,702 --> 00:27:45,038 are used in a way that is safe and ethical. 419 00:27:46,247 --> 00:27:49,959 Let's have conversations about rules of engagement, 420 00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:54,005 and codes of conduct in using AI throughout our weapons systems. 421 00:27:54,798 --> 00:27:59,135 Because we are now seeing "enter the battlefield" technologies 422 00:27:59,219 --> 00:28:01,680 that can be used to kill autonomously. 423 00:28:02,263 --> 00:28:03,431 [beeping] 424 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:05,684 [rocket whistles] 425 00:28:05,767 --> 00:28:07,268 [explosion rumbles] 426 00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:15,110 In 2021, the UN released a report on the potential use 427 00:28:15,193 --> 00:28:19,364 of a lethal autonomous weapon on the battlefield in Libya. 428 00:28:20,073 --> 00:28:23,910 [reporter 4] A UN panel said that a drone flying in the Libyan civil war last year 429 00:28:23,993 --> 00:28:27,288 had been programmed to attack targets autonomously. 430 00:28:28,289 --> 00:28:31,209 [Emilia] If the UN reporting is accurate, 431 00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:34,963 this would be a watershed moment for humanity. 432 00:28:35,046 --> 00:28:37,090 Because it marks a use case 433 00:28:37,173 --> 00:28:42,137 where an AI made the decision to take a life, and not a human being. 434 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,180 [dramatic music plays] 435 00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:48,351 [beeping] 436 00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:51,688 [Stacie] You're seeing advanced autonomous weapons 437 00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:55,150 beginning to be used in different places around the globe. 438 00:28:56,276 --> 00:28:58,278 There were reports out of Israel. 439 00:28:58,361 --> 00:29:00,196 [dramatic music continues] 440 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:05,702 Azerbaijan used autonomous systems to target Armenian air defenses. 441 00:29:07,370 --> 00:29:09,998 [Sean] It can fly around the battlefield for hours, 442 00:29:10,081 --> 00:29:12,500 looking for things to hit on its own, 443 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:16,087 and then plow into them without any kind of human intervention. 444 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:18,298 [Stacie] And we've seen recently 445 00:29:18,381 --> 00:29:21,760 these different videos that are posted in Ukraine. 446 00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:26,890 [Paul] It's unclear what mode they might have been in when they were operating. 447 00:29:26,973 --> 00:29:30,393 Was a human in the loop, choosing what targets to attack, 448 00:29:30,477 --> 00:29:32,729 or was the machine doing that on its own? 449 00:29:32,812 --> 00:29:36,524 But there will certainly come a point in time, 450 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:40,195 whether it's already happened in Libya, Ukraine or elsewhere, 451 00:29:40,278 --> 00:29:44,449 where a machine makes its own decision about whom to kill on the battlefield. 452 00:29:44,532 --> 00:29:46,534 [music crescendos] 453 00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:50,997 [Izumi] Machines exercising lethal power against humans 454 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,374 without human intervention 455 00:29:53,458 --> 00:29:57,337 is politically unacceptable, morally repugnant. 456 00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:01,299 Whether the international community 457 00:30:01,382 --> 00:30:05,011 will be sufficient to govern those challenges 458 00:30:05,094 --> 00:30:06,888 is a big question mark. 459 00:30:06,971 --> 00:30:08,848 [somber music plays] 460 00:30:08,932 --> 00:30:12,685 [Emilia] If we look towards the future, even just a few years from now, 461 00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:15,730 what the landscape looks like is very scary, 462 00:30:16,564 --> 00:30:20,485 given that the amount of capital and human resource 463 00:30:20,568 --> 00:30:23,404 going into making AI more powerful 464 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:26,032 and using it for all of these different applications, 465 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:26,950 is immense. 466 00:30:27,033 --> 00:30:29,327 [tense music plays] 467 00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:34,958 [indistinct chatter] 468 00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:41,214 Oh my God, this guy. 469 00:30:41,756 --> 00:30:43,424 [Brandon] He knows he can't win. 470 00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,678 Oh… [muttering] 471 00:30:46,761 --> 00:30:51,099 When I see AI win at different problems, I find it inspirational. 472 00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:53,977 Going for a little Hail Mary action. 473 00:30:54,477 --> 00:30:59,524 And you can apply those same tactics, techniques, procedures to real aircraft. 474 00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:04,404 -[friend] Good game. -[Brandon] All right, good game. [laughs] 475 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:08,157 [sighs] 476 00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:09,909 It's surprising to me 477 00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:14,122 that people continue to make statements about what AI can't do. Right? 478 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:17,166 "Oh, it'll never be able to beat a world champion in chess." 479 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:19,294 [tense classical music plays] 480 00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:22,672 [reporter 5] An IBM computer has made a comeback 481 00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:25,925 in Game 2 of its match with world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. 482 00:31:27,093 --> 00:31:30,889 [commentator] Whoa! Kasparov has resigned! 483 00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:34,642 [Kasporov] When I see something that is well beyond my understanding, 484 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:38,062 I'm scared. And that was something well beyond my understanding. 485 00:31:39,355 --> 00:31:41,107 [Brandon] And then people would say, 486 00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:44,402 "It'll never be able to beat a world champion in the game of Go." 487 00:31:44,485 --> 00:31:50,700 [Go champion] I believe human intuition is still too advanced for A.I. 488 00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:52,827 to have caught up. 489 00:31:53,411 --> 00:31:55,204 [tense music continues] 490 00:31:55,288 --> 00:31:58,416 [man 15] Go is one of the most complicated games anyone can learn 491 00:31:58,499 --> 00:32:02,211 because the number of moves on the board, when you do the math, 492 00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,256 equal more atoms than there are in the entire universe. 493 00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:08,968 There was a team at Google called DeepMind, 494 00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:11,471 and they created a program called AlphaGo 495 00:32:11,554 --> 00:32:14,265 to be able to beat the world's best players. 496 00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,476 [officiator] Wow. 497 00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:18,394 Congratulations to… 498 00:32:18,478 --> 00:32:19,437 -AlphaGo -AlphaGo. 499 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,774 A computer program has just beaten a 9 dan professional. 500 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:31,532 [Brandon] Then DeepMind chose StarCraft as kind of their next AI challenge. 501 00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:38,081 StarCraft is perhaps the most popular real-time strategy game of all time. 502 00:32:40,333 --> 00:32:44,712 AlphaStar became famous when it started defeating world champions. 503 00:32:45,338 --> 00:32:48,800 [host 1] AlphaStar absolutely smashing Immortal Arc. 504 00:32:48,883 --> 00:32:49,717 [host 2] Know what? 505 00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:52,553 This is not gonna be a fight that the pros can win. 506 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,806 It's kind of ridiculous. 507 00:32:54,889 --> 00:32:57,558 [tense classical music continues] 508 00:32:57,642 --> 00:33:00,895 [Brandon] Professional gamers say, "I would never try that tactic." 509 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,816 "I would never try that strategy. That's something that's not human." 510 00:33:07,151 --> 00:33:10,655 And that was perhaps, you know, the "a-ha" moment for me. 511 00:33:10,738 --> 00:33:12,657 [music crescendos] 512 00:33:13,574 --> 00:33:16,661 I came to realize the time is now. 513 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:21,082 There's an important technology and an opportunity to make a difference. 514 00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,167 [somber music plays] 515 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:29,382 I only knew the problems that I had faced as a SEAL in close-quarters combat, 516 00:33:30,383 --> 00:33:34,470 but one of my good friends, who was an F-18 pilot, told me, 517 00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:37,724 "We have the same problem in the fighter jet community." 518 00:33:37,807 --> 00:33:39,434 "They are jamming communications." 519 00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:42,562 "There are proliferated surface-to-air missile sites 520 00:33:42,645 --> 00:33:44,439 that make it too dangerous to operate." 521 00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:50,987 Imagine if we had a fighter jet that was commanded by an AI. 522 00:33:51,070 --> 00:33:52,739 [host 3] Welcome to the AlphaDogfights. 523 00:33:52,822 --> 00:33:56,159 We're a couple of minutes away from this first semifinal. 524 00:33:56,242 --> 00:33:59,871 [Brandon] DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 525 00:33:59,954 --> 00:34:03,624 had seen AlphaGo and AlphaStar, 526 00:34:04,292 --> 00:34:08,171 and so this idea of the AlphaDogfight competition came to life. 527 00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:11,466 [host 4] It's what you wanna see your fighter pilots do. 528 00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:13,634 [host 3] This looks like human dogfighting. 529 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:15,511 [tense music plays] 530 00:34:15,595 --> 00:34:19,057 [Brandon] Dogfighting is fighter-on-fighter aircraft going at it. 531 00:34:19,849 --> 00:34:22,852 You can think about it as a boxing match in the sky. 532 00:34:23,853 --> 00:34:26,314 Maybe people have seen the movie Top Gun. 533 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:30,068 -[character] Can we outrun these guys? -[Maverick] Not their missiles and guns. 534 00:34:30,151 --> 00:34:31,277 [character] It's a dogfight. 535 00:34:35,531 --> 00:34:39,410 [Brandon] Learning to master dogfighting can take eight to ten years. 536 00:34:42,288 --> 00:34:46,209 It's an extremely complex challenge to build AI around. 537 00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:49,045 [dramatic music plays] 538 00:34:49,128 --> 00:34:51,130 [keyboard tapping] 539 00:34:54,092 --> 00:34:58,679 The prior approaches to autonomy and dogfighting tended to be brittle. 540 00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:03,017 [man 16] We figured machine learning was probably the way to solve this problem. 541 00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:08,189 At first, the AI knew nothing about the world in which it was dropped. 542 00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:11,025 It didn't know it was flying or what dogfighting was. 543 00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:12,735 It didn't know what an F-16 is. 544 00:35:13,236 --> 00:35:15,988 All it knew was the available actions it could take, 545 00:35:16,072 --> 00:35:18,407 and it would start to randomly explore those actions. 546 00:35:19,325 --> 00:35:23,204 [colleague] The blue plane's been training for only a small amount of time. 547 00:35:23,287 --> 00:35:25,832 You can see it wobbling back and forth, 548 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:30,545 uh, flying very erratically, generally away from its adversary. 549 00:35:31,587 --> 00:35:34,257 As the fight progresses, we can see blue is starting 550 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:36,134 to establish here its game plan. 551 00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:38,636 It's more in a position to shoot. 552 00:35:39,178 --> 00:35:41,305 Once in a while, the learning algorithm said, 553 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:43,891 "Here's a cookie. Keep doing more of that." 554 00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:49,147 We can take advantage of computer power and train the agents many times 555 00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:50,064 in parallel. 556 00:35:51,357 --> 00:35:52,775 It's like a basketball team. 557 00:35:53,276 --> 00:35:55,778 Instead of playing the same team over and over again, 558 00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:59,198 you're traveling the world playing 512 different teams, 559 00:35:59,699 --> 00:36:00,950 all at the same time. 560 00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,452 You can get very good, very fast. 561 00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:07,456 We were able to run that simulation 24/7 562 00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:11,919 and get something like 30 years of pilot training time in, in 10 months. 563 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:12,837 [music builds] 564 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,673 We went from barely able to control the aircraft 565 00:36:15,756 --> 00:36:17,717 to being a stone-cold assassin. 566 00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:23,514 Under training, we were competing only against other artificial intelligence. 567 00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:28,561 But competing against humans directly was kind of the ultimate target. 568 00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:35,610 My name is Mike Benitez, 569 00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:38,362 I'm a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. 570 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:41,157 Been on active duty about 25 years. 571 00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:44,869 I've got 250 combat missions 572 00:36:45,578 --> 00:36:47,538 and I'm a weapons school graduate, 573 00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:49,832 which is Air Force version of Top Gun. 574 00:36:52,627 --> 00:36:55,171 I've never actually flown against AI. 575 00:36:55,254 --> 00:36:58,549 So I'm pretty excited to see how well I can do. 576 00:36:59,634 --> 00:37:03,054 [commander] We got now a 6,000 feet offensive set up nose-to-nose. 577 00:37:04,388 --> 00:37:05,223 Fight's on. 578 00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:06,724 [tense music plays] 579 00:37:06,807 --> 00:37:08,309 [air rushing] 580 00:37:09,852 --> 00:37:10,978 [machine gun fire] 581 00:37:13,314 --> 00:37:14,148 He's gone now. 582 00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:16,651 Yeah, that's actually really interesting. 583 00:37:16,734 --> 00:37:18,778 [muttering indistinctly] 584 00:37:19,278 --> 00:37:20,696 [machine gun fire] 585 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:23,658 Dead. Got him. Flawless victory. 586 00:37:23,741 --> 00:37:25,409 [chuckling] 587 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:27,453 All right, round two. 588 00:37:27,536 --> 00:37:30,039 [tense music continues] 589 00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:33,209 [machine gun fire] 590 00:37:35,461 --> 00:37:40,466 What the artificial intelligence is doing is maneuvering with such precision, 591 00:37:40,967 --> 00:37:43,219 uh, that I just can't keep up with it. 592 00:37:43,302 --> 00:37:44,679 [air rushing] 593 00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:46,013 [machine gun fire] 594 00:37:46,847 --> 00:37:48,391 [air rushing] 595 00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:49,725 Right into the merge. 596 00:37:50,309 --> 00:37:51,894 Oh, now you're gone. 597 00:37:51,978 --> 00:37:53,062 [machine gun fire] 598 00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:53,980 Got him! 599 00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:55,022 Still got me. 600 00:37:55,523 --> 00:37:56,857 [laughing] 601 00:37:58,567 --> 00:38:00,069 [Brett] AI is never scared. 602 00:38:00,736 --> 00:38:03,781 There's a human emotional element in the cockpit an AI won't have. 603 00:38:03,864 --> 00:38:04,907 [music rises] 604 00:38:04,991 --> 00:38:08,077 One of the more interesting strategies our AI developed, 605 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,121 was what we call the face shot. 606 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:14,000 Usually a human wants to shoot from behind 607 00:38:14,083 --> 00:38:16,377 because it's hard for them to shake you loose. 608 00:38:17,044 --> 00:38:20,381 They don't try face shots because you're playing a game of chicken. 609 00:38:20,464 --> 00:38:21,340 [beeping] 610 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:25,511 When we come head-on, 3,000 feet away to 500 feet away 611 00:38:25,594 --> 00:38:27,096 can happen in a blink of an eye. 612 00:38:27,596 --> 00:38:31,183 You run a high risk of colliding, so humans don't try it. 613 00:38:31,267 --> 00:38:32,393 [high-pitched tone] 614 00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:35,938 The AI, unless it's told to fear death, will not fear death. 615 00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:37,023 [machine gun fire] 616 00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:40,693 [Mike] All good. Feels like I'm fighting against a human, uh, 617 00:38:40,776 --> 00:38:44,113 a human that has a reckless abandonment for safety. [chuckles] 618 00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:47,325 He's not gonna survive this last one. 619 00:38:48,284 --> 00:38:49,869 [air rushing] 620 00:38:50,369 --> 00:38:52,038 [tense music continues] 621 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:56,292 [wind whistling] 622 00:38:57,168 --> 00:38:58,461 He doesn't have enough time. 623 00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:01,464 Ah! 624 00:39:01,964 --> 00:39:02,965 [Brett] Good night. 625 00:39:03,049 --> 00:39:04,008 [beeping] 626 00:39:04,091 --> 00:39:04,925 [Mike] I'm dead. 627 00:39:16,812 --> 00:39:17,980 It's humbling to know 628 00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:20,983 that I might not even be the best thing for this mission, 629 00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:24,320 and that thing could be something that replaces me one day. 630 00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:26,989 [colleague] Same 6 CAV. 631 00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:28,866 One thousand offset. 632 00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:32,078 [Brandon] With this AI pilot commanding fighter aircraft, 633 00:39:32,828 --> 00:39:34,830 the winning is relentless, it's dominant. 634 00:39:34,914 --> 00:39:37,249 It's not just winning by a wide range. 635 00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:41,545 It's, "Okay, how can we get that onto our aircraft?" It's that powerful. 636 00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:43,589 [melodic music plays] 637 00:39:43,672 --> 00:39:47,802 [Nathan] It's realistic to expect that AI will be piloting an F-16, 638 00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:49,970 and it will not be that far out. 639 00:39:51,305 --> 00:39:56,769 [Brandon] If you're going up against an AI pilot that has a 99.99999% win rate, 640 00:39:56,852 --> 00:39:58,062 you don't stand a chance. 641 00:39:58,145 --> 00:39:59,522 [tense music plays] 642 00:39:59,605 --> 00:40:02,733 When I think about one AI pilot being unbeatable, 643 00:40:02,817 --> 00:40:06,779 I think about what a team of 50, or 100, 644 00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:12,535 or 1,000 AI pilots can continue to, uh, achieve. 645 00:40:13,702 --> 00:40:17,415 Swarming is a team of highly intelligent aircraft 646 00:40:17,498 --> 00:40:18,791 that work with each other. 647 00:40:19,291 --> 00:40:23,462 They're sharing information about what to do, how to solve a problem. 648 00:40:23,546 --> 00:40:24,588 [beeping] 649 00:40:25,172 --> 00:40:30,469 Swarming will be a game-changing and transformational capability 650 00:40:30,553 --> 00:40:32,638 to our military and our allies. 651 00:40:33,139 --> 00:40:35,433 [crickets chirping] 652 00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:37,852 [dramatic music plays] 653 00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:45,818 [music intensifies] 654 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,256 [muffled radio music] 655 00:41:12,553 --> 00:41:14,346 [tense music plays] 656 00:41:19,643 --> 00:41:21,061 [wind whistling] 657 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:22,062 [buzzing] 658 00:41:25,608 --> 00:41:27,318 [truck accelerating] 659 00:41:27,401 --> 00:41:28,486 [music builds] 660 00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:47,379 [controller] Target has been acquired, and the drones are tracking him. 661 00:41:56,722 --> 00:41:58,057 [music crescendos] 662 00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:03,604 [controller] Here comes the land. 663 00:42:07,566 --> 00:42:10,402 [man 17] Primary goal of the swarming research we're working on 664 00:42:11,153 --> 00:42:13,697 is to deploy a large number of drones 665 00:42:13,781 --> 00:42:17,910 over an area that is hard to get to or dangerous to get to. 666 00:42:17,993 --> 00:42:19,995 [cryptic music plays] 667 00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:21,622 [buzzing] 668 00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:26,085 The Army Research Lab has been supporting this particular research project. 669 00:42:26,919 --> 00:42:28,963 If you want to know what's in a location, 670 00:42:29,046 --> 00:42:32,883 but it's hard to get to that area, or it's a very large area, 671 00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:35,886 then deploying a swarm is a very natural way 672 00:42:35,970 --> 00:42:38,389 to extend the reach of individuals 673 00:42:38,472 --> 00:42:41,934 and collect information that is critical to the mission. 674 00:42:42,935 --> 00:42:44,770 [music intensifies] 675 00:42:46,689 --> 00:42:48,983 So, right now in our swarm deployment, 676 00:42:49,066 --> 00:42:53,988 we essentially give a single command to go track the target of interest. 677 00:42:54,488 --> 00:42:57,283 Then the drones go and do all of that on their own. 678 00:42:59,493 --> 00:43:04,081 Artificial intelligence allows the robots to move collectively as a swarm 679 00:43:04,164 --> 00:43:05,708 in a decentralized manner. 680 00:43:06,792 --> 00:43:08,877 [melodic music plays] 681 00:43:10,671 --> 00:43:12,506 In the swarms in nature that we see, 682 00:43:13,299 --> 00:43:18,178 there's no boss, no main animal telling them what to do. 683 00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:25,019 The behavior is emerging out of each individual animal 684 00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:27,104 following a few simple rules. 685 00:43:27,688 --> 00:43:32,443 And out of that grows this emergent collective behavior that you see. 686 00:43:32,526 --> 00:43:33,861 [buzzing] 687 00:43:33,944 --> 00:43:37,031 What's awe-inspiring about swarms in nature 688 00:43:37,114 --> 00:43:39,992 is the graceful ability in which they move. 689 00:43:40,576 --> 00:43:44,288 It's as if they were built to be a part of this group. 690 00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:51,128 Ideally, what we'd love to see with our drone swarm is, 691 00:43:51,211 --> 00:43:53,172 much like in the swarm in nature, 692 00:43:53,672 --> 00:43:56,717 decisions being made by the group collectively. 693 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,428 [melodic music continues] 694 00:43:59,928 --> 00:44:02,765 The other piece of inspiration for us 695 00:44:02,848 --> 00:44:06,268 comes in the form of reliability and resiliency. 696 00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:09,188 That swarm will not go down 697 00:44:09,271 --> 00:44:13,567 if one individual animal doesn't do what it's supposed to do. 698 00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:15,110 [buzzing] 699 00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:18,697 Even if one of the agents falls out, or fails, 700 00:44:18,781 --> 00:44:20,866 or isn't able to complete the task, 701 00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:23,369 the swarm will continue. 702 00:44:25,204 --> 00:44:27,873 And ultimately, that's what we'd like to have. 703 00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:33,879 We have this need in combat scenarios for identifying enemy aircraft, 704 00:44:33,962 --> 00:44:37,841 and it used to be we required one person controlling one robot. 705 00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:40,552 As autonomy increases, 706 00:44:40,636 --> 00:44:43,555 I hope we will get to see a large number of robots 707 00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:46,558 being controlled by a very small number of people. 708 00:44:47,851 --> 00:44:50,854 I see no reason why we couldn't achieve a thousand eventually 709 00:44:51,355 --> 00:44:54,942 because each agent will be able to act of its own accord, 710 00:44:55,025 --> 00:44:56,443 and the sky's the limit. 711 00:44:57,027 --> 00:44:59,071 We can scale our learning… 712 00:44:59,154 --> 00:45:03,325 [Justin B.] We've been working on swarming in simulation for quite some time, 713 00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:06,829 and it is time to bring that to real-world aircraft. 714 00:45:07,454 --> 00:45:12,042 We expect to be doing three robots at once over the network, 715 00:45:12,126 --> 00:45:15,129 and then starting to add more and more capabilities. 716 00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:18,549 We want to be able to test that on smaller systems, 717 00:45:18,632 --> 00:45:22,261 but take those same concepts and apply them to larger systems, 718 00:45:22,344 --> 00:45:23,679 like a fighter jet. 719 00:45:24,513 --> 00:45:26,014 [Brandon] We talk a lot about, 720 00:45:26,098 --> 00:45:31,937 how do you give a platoon the combat power of a battalion? 721 00:45:32,020 --> 00:45:33,939 [dramatic music plays] 722 00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:39,528 Or a battalion the combat power of a brigade? 723 00:45:39,611 --> 00:45:41,488 You can do that with swarming. 724 00:45:42,614 --> 00:45:45,200 And when you can unlock that power of swarming, 725 00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,078 you have just created a new strategic deterrence 726 00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:49,455 to military aggression. 727 00:45:49,538 --> 00:45:52,249 [dramatic music continues] 728 00:45:52,332 --> 00:45:57,004 [Bob] I think the most exciting thing is the number of young men and women 729 00:45:57,087 --> 00:46:00,299 who we will save if we really do this right. 730 00:46:01,091 --> 00:46:03,594 And we trade machines 731 00:46:04,553 --> 00:46:05,846 rather than human lives. 732 00:46:06,638 --> 00:46:10,893 Some argue that autonomous weapons will make warfare more precise 733 00:46:10,976 --> 00:46:12,311 and more humane, 734 00:46:12,853 --> 00:46:15,397 but it's actually difficult to predict 735 00:46:15,481 --> 00:46:19,443 exactly how autonomous weapons might change warfare ahead of time. 736 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,238 It's like the invention of the Gatling gun. 737 00:46:23,322 --> 00:46:24,990 [grim music plays] 738 00:46:25,073 --> 00:46:26,700 Richard Gatling was an inventor, 739 00:46:27,201 --> 00:46:30,954 and he saw soldiers coming back, wounded in the Civil War, 740 00:46:32,289 --> 00:46:35,292 and wanted to find ways to make warfare more humane. 741 00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:39,797 To reduce the number of soldiers that were killed in war 742 00:46:40,422 --> 00:46:42,633 by reducing the number of soldiers in the battle. 743 00:46:42,716 --> 00:46:44,009 [music builds] 744 00:46:44,092 --> 00:46:48,388 And so he invented the Gatling gun, an automated gun turned by a crank 745 00:46:48,472 --> 00:46:50,516 that could automate the process of firing. 746 00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:57,981 It increased effectively by a hundredfold the firepower that soldiers could deliver. 747 00:46:58,065 --> 00:47:00,734 [grim music continues] 748 00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:05,239 Oftentimes, efforts to make warfare more precise and humane… 749 00:47:05,322 --> 00:47:06,448 [tense music plays] 750 00:47:06,532 --> 00:47:07,991 …can have the opposite effect. 751 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,455 [Arash] Think about the effect of one errant drone strike 752 00:47:13,539 --> 00:47:14,540 in a rural area 753 00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:17,209 that drives the local populace against the United States, 754 00:47:17,292 --> 00:47:20,712 against the local government. You know, supposedly the good guys. 755 00:47:20,796 --> 00:47:22,506 [tense music continues] 756 00:47:22,589 --> 00:47:25,008 Now magnify that by 1,000. 757 00:47:26,718 --> 00:47:28,720 [Emilia] The creation of a weapon system 758 00:47:28,804 --> 00:47:34,560 that is cheap, scalable, and doesn't require human operators 759 00:47:34,643 --> 00:47:37,896 drastically changes the actual barriers to conflict. 760 00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:44,486 It keeps me up at night to think of a world where war is ubiquitous, 761 00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:48,657 and we no longer carry the human and financial cost of war 762 00:47:48,740 --> 00:47:51,410 because we're just so far removed from… 763 00:47:52,369 --> 00:47:54,037 the lives that will be lost. 764 00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:57,541 [somber melodic music plays] 765 00:47:59,459 --> 00:48:01,420 [Sean] This whole thing is haunting me. 766 00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:05,924 I just needed an example of artificial intelligence misuse. 767 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,888 The unanticipated consequences of doing that simple thought experiment 768 00:48:10,971 --> 00:48:12,848 have gone way too far. 769 00:48:17,352 --> 00:48:18,729 When I gave the presentation 770 00:48:18,812 --> 00:48:22,107 on the toxic molecules created by AI technology, 771 00:48:22,608 --> 00:48:24,318 the audience's jaws dropped. 772 00:48:29,406 --> 00:48:33,660 [Fabio] The next decision was whether we should publish this information. 773 00:48:34,912 --> 00:48:36,914 On one hand, you want to warn the world 774 00:48:36,997 --> 00:48:40,125 of these sorts of capabilities, but on the other hand, 775 00:48:40,208 --> 00:48:44,087 you don't want to give somebody the idea if they had never had it before. 776 00:48:46,381 --> 00:48:48,133 We decided it was worth publishing 777 00:48:48,216 --> 00:48:52,679 to maybe find some ways to mitigate the misuse of this type of AI 778 00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:54,139 before it occurs. 779 00:48:54,222 --> 00:48:56,224 [grim music plays] 780 00:49:01,897 --> 00:49:04,775 The general public's reaction was shocking. 781 00:49:04,858 --> 00:49:07,110 [tense music plays] 782 00:49:07,194 --> 00:49:10,656 We can see the metrics on the page, how many people have accessed it. 783 00:49:10,739 --> 00:49:14,451 The kinds of articles we normally write, we're lucky if we get-- 784 00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:19,831 A few thousand people look at our article over a period of a year or multiple years. 785 00:49:19,915 --> 00:49:22,084 It was 10,000 people had read it within a week. 786 00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,337 Then it was 20,000, then it was 30,000, then it was 40,000, 787 00:49:25,837 --> 00:49:28,715 and we were up to 10,000 people a day. 788 00:49:30,258 --> 00:49:33,512 [Sean] We've done The Economist, the Financial Times. 789 00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:39,977 Radiolab, you know, they reached out. Like, I've heard of Radiolab! 790 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,311 [music crescendos] 791 00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:45,899 But then the reactions turned into this thing that's out of control. 792 00:49:45,983 --> 00:49:48,235 [tense music continues] 793 00:49:49,778 --> 00:49:53,532 When we look at those tweets, it's like, "Oh my God, could they do anything worse?" 794 00:49:54,324 --> 00:49:55,993 Why did they do this? 795 00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:59,329 [music crescendos] 796 00:50:01,164 --> 00:50:04,501 And then we got an invitation I never would have anticipated. 797 00:50:04,584 --> 00:50:07,087 [dramatic music plays] 798 00:50:08,797 --> 00:50:12,926 There was a lot of discussion inside the White House about the article, 799 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,345 and they wanted to talk to us urgently. 800 00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:20,809 Obviously, it's an incredible honor 801 00:50:20,892 --> 00:50:23,020 to be able to talk to people at this level. 802 00:50:23,603 --> 00:50:25,272 But then it hits you 803 00:50:25,355 --> 00:50:28,900 like, "Oh my goodness, it's the White House. The boss." 804 00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:33,196 This involved putting together data sets that were open source… 805 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,701 And in about six hours, the model was able to generate about over 40,000… 806 00:50:37,784 --> 00:50:41,038 [Sean] They asked questions about how much computing power you needed, 807 00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:43,832 and we told them it was nothing special. 808 00:50:44,332 --> 00:50:48,211 Literally a standard run-of-the-mill, six-year-old Mac. 809 00:50:49,546 --> 00:50:51,256 And that blew them away. 810 00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:54,468 [dramatic music continues] 811 00:50:54,968 --> 00:50:59,473 The folks that are in charge of understanding chemical warfare agents 812 00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:04,019 and governmental agencies, they had no idea of this potential. 813 00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:06,104 [music intensifies] 814 00:51:06,605 --> 00:51:09,816 We've got this cookbook to make these chemical weapons, 815 00:51:10,650 --> 00:51:15,572 and in the hands of a bad actor that has malicious intent 816 00:51:16,573 --> 00:51:18,992 it could be utterly horrifying. 817 00:51:19,534 --> 00:51:21,203 [grim music plays] 818 00:51:21,703 --> 00:51:23,205 People have to sit up and listen, 819 00:51:23,288 --> 00:51:26,458 and we have to take steps to either regulate the technology 820 00:51:27,250 --> 00:51:30,670 or constrain it in a way that it can't be misused. 821 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,175 Because the potential for lethality… 822 00:51:36,176 --> 00:51:37,344 is terrifying. 823 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,977 The question of the ethics of AI is largely addressed by society, 824 00:51:46,561 --> 00:51:50,273 not by the engineers or technologists, the mathematicians. 825 00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:52,442 [beeping] 826 00:51:52,526 --> 00:51:56,822 Every technology that we bring forth, every novel innovation, 827 00:51:56,905 --> 00:52:00,617 ultimately falls under the purview of how society believes we should use it. 828 00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:02,536 [somber music plays] 829 00:52:03,036 --> 00:52:06,498 [Bob] Right now, the Department of Defense says, 830 00:52:06,581 --> 00:52:09,960 "The only thing that is saying we are going to kill something 831 00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:11,920 on the battlefield is a human." 832 00:52:12,504 --> 00:52:14,548 A machine can do the killing, 833 00:52:15,674 --> 00:52:18,927 but only at the behest of a human operator, 834 00:52:19,636 --> 00:52:21,429 and I don't see that ever changing. 835 00:52:21,513 --> 00:52:23,390 [somber music continues] 836 00:52:24,808 --> 00:52:28,103 [Arash] They assure us that this type of technology will be safe. 837 00:52:29,729 --> 00:52:33,692 But the United States military just doesn't have a trustworthy reputation 838 00:52:33,775 --> 00:52:35,485 with drone warfare. 839 00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:41,783 And so, when it comes to trusting the U.S. military with AI, 840 00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:45,036 I would say, you know, the track record kinda speaks for itself. 841 00:52:46,288 --> 00:52:50,125 [Paul] The U.S. Defense Department policy on the use of autonomy in weapons 842 00:52:50,208 --> 00:52:52,919 does not ban any kind of weapon system. 843 00:52:53,003 --> 00:52:56,715 And even if militaries might not want autonomous weapons, 844 00:52:56,798 --> 00:53:01,678 we could see militaries handing over more decisions to machines 845 00:53:01,761 --> 00:53:03,680 just to keep pace with competitors. 846 00:53:04,764 --> 00:53:08,351 And that could drive militaries to automate decisions 847 00:53:08,435 --> 00:53:09,978 that they may not want to. 848 00:53:12,022 --> 00:53:13,440 [Bob] Vladimir Putin said, 849 00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:16,693 "Whoever leads in AI is going to rule the world." 850 00:53:17,736 --> 00:53:23,325 President Xi has made it clear that AI is one of the number one technologies 851 00:53:23,408 --> 00:53:25,702 that China wants to dominate in. 852 00:53:26,786 --> 00:53:29,831 We're clearly in a technological competition. 853 00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:35,670 [Brandon] You hear people talk about guardrails, 854 00:53:36,463 --> 00:53:39,424 and I believe that is what people should be doing. 855 00:53:40,467 --> 00:53:45,180 But there is a very real race for AI superiority. 856 00:53:45,263 --> 00:53:46,264 [birds chirping] 857 00:53:47,265 --> 00:53:51,603 And our adversaries, whether it's China, whether it's Russia, whether it's Iran, 858 00:53:52,187 --> 00:53:56,566 are not going to give two thoughts to what our policy says around AI. 859 00:53:57,943 --> 00:54:00,320 [birds singing] 860 00:54:00,820 --> 00:54:04,324 You're seeing a lot more conversations around AI policy, 861 00:54:06,117 --> 00:54:09,287 but I wish more leaders would have the conversation 862 00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:11,706 saying, ''How quickly can we build this thing? 863 00:54:12,707 --> 00:54:15,168 Let's resource the heck out of it and build it." 864 00:54:15,919 --> 00:54:17,462 [dramatic music plays] 865 00:54:17,545 --> 00:54:18,838 [horns honking] 866 00:54:24,177 --> 00:54:26,388 [indistinct chatter] 867 00:54:26,888 --> 00:54:29,057 [inaudible conversation] 868 00:54:29,557 --> 00:54:31,017 [beeping] 869 00:54:33,478 --> 00:54:38,358 We are at the Association of the U.S. Army's biggest trade show of the year. 870 00:54:39,609 --> 00:54:44,572 Basically, any vendor who is selling a product or technology into a military 871 00:54:44,656 --> 00:54:46,616 will be exhibiting. 872 00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:50,537 [man 18] The Tyndall Air Force Base has four of our robots 873 00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:53,748 that patrol their base 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 874 00:54:55,750 --> 00:55:00,130 We can add everything from cameras to sensors to whatever you need. 875 00:55:00,213 --> 00:55:05,135 Manipulator arms. Again, just to complete the mission that the customer has in mind. 876 00:55:06,678 --> 00:55:08,638 [man 19] What if your enemy introduces AI? 877 00:55:09,431 --> 00:55:12,976 A fighting system that thinks faster than you, responds faster, 878 00:55:13,059 --> 00:55:16,062 than what a human being can do? We've got to be prepared. 879 00:55:17,605 --> 00:55:21,359 We train our systems to collect intel on the enemy, 880 00:55:22,027 --> 00:55:26,531 managing enemy targets with humans supervising the kill chain. 881 00:55:27,115 --> 00:55:28,491 [music crescendos] 882 00:55:33,204 --> 00:55:34,956 -[Brandon] Hi, General. -How you doing? 883 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,208 [Brandon] Good, sir. How are you? Um… 884 00:55:37,709 --> 00:55:40,962 I'll just say no one is investing more in an AI pilot. 885 00:55:41,046 --> 00:55:42,630 Our AI pilot's called Hivemind, 886 00:55:43,298 --> 00:55:47,135 so we applied it to our quadcopter Nova. It goes inside buildings, 887 00:55:47,218 --> 00:55:49,387 explores them ahead of special operation forces 888 00:55:49,471 --> 00:55:50,805 and infantry forces. 889 00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:52,891 We're applying Hivemind to V-BAT, 890 00:55:52,974 --> 00:55:56,811 so I think about, you know, putting up hundreds of those teams. 891 00:55:56,895 --> 00:55:58,646 Whether it's the Taiwan Strait, 892 00:55:58,730 --> 00:56:01,608 whether it's in the Ukraine, deterring our adversaries. 893 00:56:01,691 --> 00:56:03,360 So, pretty excited about it. 894 00:56:03,943 --> 00:56:06,196 -All right. Thank you. -So. Thank you, General. 895 00:56:06,279 --> 00:56:07,906 [indistinct chatter] 896 00:56:07,989 --> 00:56:13,370 AI pilots should be ubiquitous, and that should be the case by 2025, 2030. 897 00:56:14,204 --> 00:56:17,582 Its adoption will be rapid throughout militaries across the world. 898 00:56:17,665 --> 00:56:19,167 [inaudible chatter] 899 00:56:19,250 --> 00:56:22,962 What do you do with the Romanian military, their UAS guy? 900 00:56:23,046 --> 00:56:24,756 [soldier] High-tech in the military. 901 00:56:25,256 --> 00:56:29,803 We've spent half a billion dollars to date on building an AI pilot. 902 00:56:29,886 --> 00:56:34,015 We will spend another billion dollars over the next five years. And that is… 903 00:56:34,099 --> 00:56:37,769 It's a major reason why we're winning the programs of record in the U.S. 904 00:56:37,852 --> 00:56:38,853 Nice. 905 00:56:38,937 --> 00:56:42,732 I mean, it's impressive. You succeeded to weaponize that. 906 00:56:43,608 --> 00:56:45,944 Uh, it is… This is not weaponized yet. 907 00:56:46,027 --> 00:56:48,321 So not yet. But yes, in the future. 908 00:56:48,905 --> 00:56:52,534 Our customers think about it as a truck. We think of it as an intelligent truck 909 00:56:52,617 --> 00:56:54,452 that can do a lot of different things. 910 00:56:54,536 --> 00:56:55,703 Thank you, buddy. 911 00:56:55,787 --> 00:56:57,956 [Brandon] I'll make sure to follow up with you. 912 00:56:58,456 --> 00:57:00,458 [inaudible chatter] 913 00:57:01,668 --> 00:57:04,129 If you come back in 10 years, 914 00:57:04,212 --> 00:57:06,256 you'll see that, um… 915 00:57:06,339 --> 00:57:10,802 AI and autonomy will have dominated this entire market. 916 00:57:10,885 --> 00:57:12,887 [cryptic music plays] 917 00:57:14,889 --> 00:57:19,352 [Nathan] Forces that are supported by AI and autonomy 918 00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:25,108 will absolutely dominate, crush, and destroy forces without. 919 00:57:26,401 --> 00:57:30,780 It'll be the equivalent of horses going up against tanks, 920 00:57:31,781 --> 00:57:34,367 people with swords going up against the machine gun. 921 00:57:34,909 --> 00:57:37,120 It will not even be close. 922 00:57:38,746 --> 00:57:42,750 [Brandon] It will become ubiquitous, used at every spectrum of warfare, 923 00:57:43,585 --> 00:57:44,836 the tactical level, 924 00:57:45,336 --> 00:57:46,546 the strategic level, 925 00:57:47,172 --> 00:57:50,800 operating at speeds that humans cannot fathom today. 926 00:57:53,094 --> 00:57:57,098 [Paul] Commanders are already overwhelmed with too much information. 927 00:57:57,599 --> 00:58:01,019 Imagery from satellites, and drones, and sensors. 928 00:58:02,103 --> 00:58:03,396 One of the things AI can do 929 00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,774 is help a commander more rapidly understand what is occurring. 930 00:58:07,650 --> 00:58:09,903 And then, "What are the decisions I need to make?" 931 00:58:11,237 --> 00:58:14,866 [Bob] Artificial intelligence will take into account all the factors 932 00:58:14,949 --> 00:58:17,702 that determine the way war is fought, 933 00:58:18,286 --> 00:58:20,246 come up with strategies… 934 00:58:22,540 --> 00:58:25,668 and give recommendations on how to win a battle. 935 00:58:25,752 --> 00:58:27,754 [cryptic music continues] 936 00:58:27,837 --> 00:58:29,589 [birds chirping] 937 00:58:36,971 --> 00:58:40,266 [man 20] We at Lockheed Martin, like our Department of Defense customer, 938 00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:43,770 view artificial intelligence as a key technology enabler 939 00:58:43,853 --> 00:58:45,104 for command and control. 940 00:58:47,065 --> 00:58:50,235 [analyst 1] The rate of spread has an average of two feet per second. 941 00:58:50,318 --> 00:58:52,695 [analyst 2] This perimeter is roughly 700 acres. 942 00:58:52,779 --> 00:58:55,782 [man 20] The fog of war is a reality for us on the defense side, 943 00:58:57,158 --> 00:59:00,495 but it has parallels to being in the environment 944 00:59:00,578 --> 00:59:03,206 and having to make decisions for wildfires as well. 945 00:59:03,289 --> 00:59:06,543 [analyst 1] The Washburn fire is just north of the city of Wawona. 946 00:59:06,626 --> 00:59:09,629 [man 20] You're having to make decisions with imperfect data. 947 00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:14,300 And so how do we have AI help us with that fog of war? 948 00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:19,597 Wildfires are very chaotic. 949 00:59:20,181 --> 00:59:21,266 They're very complex, 950 00:59:22,267 --> 00:59:26,354 and so we're working to utilize artificial intelligence 951 00:59:26,437 --> 00:59:27,855 to help make decisions. 952 00:59:28,356 --> 00:59:30,942 [somber melodic music plays] 953 00:59:31,442 --> 00:59:33,987 The Cognitive Mission Manager is a program we're building 954 00:59:34,070 --> 00:59:37,949 that takes aerial infrared video 955 00:59:38,032 --> 00:59:41,786 and then processes it through our AI algorithms 956 00:59:41,869 --> 00:59:45,248 to be able to predict the future state of the fire. 957 00:59:45,331 --> 00:59:47,083 [music intensifies] 958 00:59:48,042 --> 00:59:49,794 [man 21] As we move into the future, 959 00:59:49,877 --> 00:59:52,922 the Cognitive Mission Manager will use simulation, 960 00:59:53,006 --> 00:59:57,093 running scenarios over thousands of cycles, 961 00:59:57,176 --> 01:00:00,722 to recommend the most effective way to deploy resources 962 01:00:00,805 --> 01:00:04,058 to suppress high-priority areas of fire. 963 01:00:04,142 --> 01:00:05,810 [tense music plays] 964 01:00:08,062 --> 01:00:12,400 It'll say, "Go perform an aerial suppression with a Firehawk here." 965 01:00:13,568 --> 01:00:15,903 "Take ground crews that clear brush… 966 01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:16,904 [sirens wail] 967 01:00:16,988 --> 01:00:19,032 …firefighters that are hosing down, 968 01:00:19,657 --> 01:00:23,077 and deploy them into the highest priority areas." 969 01:00:24,704 --> 01:00:26,205 [music intensifies] 970 01:00:26,289 --> 01:00:29,292 Those decisions will be able to be generated faster 971 01:00:29,375 --> 01:00:31,044 and more efficiently. 972 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:38,468 [Justin T.] We view AI as uniquely allowing our humans 973 01:00:38,551 --> 01:00:42,305 to be able to keep up with the ever-changing environment. 974 01:00:42,388 --> 01:00:43,431 [grim music plays] 975 01:00:43,514 --> 01:00:46,517 And there are a credible number of parallels 976 01:00:46,601 --> 01:00:50,355 to what we're used to at Lockheed Martin on the defense side. 977 01:00:52,231 --> 01:00:55,860 [Emilia] The military is no longer talking about just using AI 978 01:00:55,943 --> 01:01:00,323 in individual weapons systems to make targeting and kill decisions, 979 01:01:00,865 --> 01:01:02,200 but integrating AI 980 01:01:02,283 --> 01:01:05,787 into the whole decision-making architecture of the military. 981 01:01:05,870 --> 01:01:07,413 [beeping] 982 01:01:09,415 --> 01:01:12,960 [Bob] The Army has a big project called Project Convergence. 983 01:01:14,545 --> 01:01:16,589 The Navy has Overmatch. 984 01:01:16,673 --> 01:01:19,592 And the Air Force has Advanced Battle Management System. 985 01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,260 [beeping] 986 01:01:21,886 --> 01:01:24,138 The Department of Defense is trying to figure out, 987 01:01:24,222 --> 01:01:26,683 "How do we put all these pieces together, 988 01:01:26,766 --> 01:01:29,268 so that we can operate faster than our adversary 989 01:01:30,395 --> 01:01:32,355 and really gain an advantage?" 990 01:01:33,481 --> 01:01:37,527 [Stacie] An AI Battle Manager would be like a fairly high-ranking General 991 01:01:37,610 --> 01:01:39,821 who's in charge of the battle. 992 01:01:39,904 --> 01:01:41,072 [grim music continues] 993 01:01:41,155 --> 01:01:44,158 Helping to give orders to large numbers of forces, 994 01:01:45,118 --> 01:01:49,247 coordinating the actions of all of the weapons that are out there, 995 01:01:49,330 --> 01:01:51,958 and doing it at a speed that no human could keep up with. 996 01:01:52,041 --> 01:01:53,459 [music intensifies] 997 01:01:53,543 --> 01:01:55,294 [Emilia] We've spent the past 70 years 998 01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:58,798 building the most sophisticated military on the planet, 999 01:01:58,881 --> 01:02:03,177 and now we're facing the decision as to whether we want to cede control 1000 01:02:03,261 --> 01:02:07,598 over that infrastructure to an algorithm, to software. 1001 01:02:08,141 --> 01:02:10,268 [indistinct chatter] 1002 01:02:10,351 --> 01:02:13,187 And the consequences of that decision 1003 01:02:13,271 --> 01:02:16,774 could trigger the full weight of our military arsenals. 1004 01:02:16,858 --> 01:02:19,902 That's not one Hiroshima. That's hundreds. 1005 01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:21,404 [music crescendos] 1006 01:02:25,616 --> 01:02:27,869 This is the time that we need to act 1007 01:02:27,952 --> 01:02:33,166 because the window to actually contain this risk is rapidly closing. 1008 01:02:33,249 --> 01:02:34,584 [melodic music plays] 1009 01:02:34,667 --> 01:02:39,338 [UN chair] This afternoon, we start with international security challenges 1010 01:02:39,422 --> 01:02:41,132 posed by emerging technologies 1011 01:02:41,215 --> 01:02:44,343 in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems. 1012 01:02:44,427 --> 01:02:47,722 [Emilia] Conversations are happening within the United Nations 1013 01:02:47,805 --> 01:02:50,016 about the threat of lethal autonomous weapons 1014 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:56,564 and our prohibition on systems that use AI to select and target people. 1015 01:02:56,647 --> 01:03:00,777 Consensus amongst technologists is clear and resounding. 1016 01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:04,030 We are opposed to autonomous weapons that target humans. 1017 01:03:05,615 --> 01:03:08,993 [Izumi] For years, states have actually discussed this issue 1018 01:03:09,076 --> 01:03:11,329 of lethal autonomous weapon systems. 1019 01:03:12,288 --> 01:03:16,793 This is about a common, shared sense of security. 1020 01:03:17,752 --> 01:03:20,546 But of course, it's not easy. 1021 01:03:21,297 --> 01:03:25,968 Certain countries, especially those military powers, 1022 01:03:26,052 --> 01:03:27,762 they want to be ahead of the curve, 1023 01:03:28,429 --> 01:03:31,599 so that they will be ahead of their adversaries. 1024 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,187 [Paul] The problem is, everyone has to agree to get anything done. 1025 01:03:36,896 --> 01:03:39,065 There will be at least one country that objects, 1026 01:03:39,148 --> 01:03:42,109 and certainly the United States and Russia have both made clear 1027 01:03:42,193 --> 01:03:45,655 that they are opposed to a treaty that would ban autonomous weapons. 1028 01:03:47,198 --> 01:03:53,246 [Emilia] When we think about the number of people working to make AI more powerful 1029 01:03:54,747 --> 01:03:56,457 that room is very crowded. 1030 01:03:57,750 --> 01:04:02,880 When we think about the room of people, making sure that AI is safe, 1031 01:04:04,340 --> 01:04:07,552 that room's much more sparsely populated. [chuckles] 1032 01:04:11,764 --> 01:04:13,724 But I'm also really optimistic. 1033 01:04:13,808 --> 01:04:15,560 [melodic music plays] 1034 01:04:16,060 --> 01:04:19,438 I look at something like the Biological Weapons Convention, 1035 01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:21,774 which happened in the middle of the Cold War… 1036 01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:22,942 [crowd cheers] 1037 01:04:23,025 --> 01:04:27,655 …despite tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. 1038 01:04:29,156 --> 01:04:33,536 They were able to realize that the development of biological weapons 1039 01:04:33,619 --> 01:04:36,247 was in neither of their best interests, 1040 01:04:36,330 --> 01:04:38,749 and not in the best interests of the world at large. 1041 01:04:38,833 --> 01:04:40,835 [music intensifies] 1042 01:04:41,335 --> 01:04:44,672 Arms race dynamics favor speed over safety. 1043 01:04:44,755 --> 01:04:45,631 [beeping] 1044 01:04:45,715 --> 01:04:48,342 But I think what's important to consider is, 1045 01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:52,430 at some point, the cost of moving fast becomes too high. 1046 01:04:54,557 --> 01:04:56,142 [beeping] 1047 01:04:56,225 --> 01:04:59,270 [Sean] We can't just develop things in isolation 1048 01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:06,611 and put them out there without any thought of where they could go in the future. 1049 01:05:07,862 --> 01:05:10,823 We've got to prevent that atom bomb moment. 1050 01:05:13,117 --> 01:05:14,493 [music intensifies] 1051 01:05:14,577 --> 01:05:17,705 [Brandon] The stakes in the AI race are massive. 1052 01:05:18,289 --> 01:05:22,001 I don't think a lot of people appreciate the global stability 1053 01:05:22,084 --> 01:05:28,174 that has been provided by having a superior military force 1054 01:05:28,257 --> 01:05:31,135 for the past 75 years. 1055 01:05:31,218 --> 01:05:32,803 [beeping] 1056 01:05:32,887 --> 01:05:35,681 And so the United States and our allied forces, 1057 01:05:36,557 --> 01:05:38,684 they need to outperform adversarial AI. 1058 01:05:40,436 --> 01:05:41,854 [music crescendos] 1059 01:05:43,314 --> 01:05:44,774 There is no second place in war. 1060 01:05:45,524 --> 01:05:47,485 [reporter 6] China laid out an ambitious plan 1061 01:05:47,568 --> 01:05:49,111 to be the world leader in AI by 2030. 1062 01:05:49,195 --> 01:05:51,656 It's a race that some say America is losing… 1063 01:05:51,739 --> 01:05:52,657 [tense music plays] 1064 01:05:52,740 --> 01:05:56,160 [official] He will accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence 1065 01:05:56,243 --> 01:05:59,246 to ensure our competitive military advantage. 1066 01:05:59,330 --> 01:06:00,206 [beeping] 1067 01:06:00,289 --> 01:06:02,291 [music intensifies] 1068 01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:05,461 [Paul] We are racing forward with this technology. 1069 01:06:05,544 --> 01:06:08,673 I think what's unclear is how far are we going to go? 1070 01:06:09,507 --> 01:06:12,760 Do we control technology, or does it control us? 1071 01:06:14,136 --> 01:06:16,973 [Emilia] There's really no opportunity for do-overs. 1072 01:06:17,807 --> 01:06:20,977 Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is out. 1073 01:06:22,019 --> 01:06:25,189 And it is very, very difficult to put it back in. 1074 01:06:26,065 --> 01:06:27,566 [beeping] 1075 01:06:28,609 --> 01:06:31,737 [Sean] And if we don't act now, it's too late. 1076 01:06:31,821 --> 01:06:33,030 [beeping] 1077 01:06:33,114 --> 01:06:34,657 It may already be too late. 1078 01:06:35,366 --> 01:06:36,200 [beeping] 1079 01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:43,499 [music crescendos] 1080 01:06:45,209 --> 01:06:48,212 [somber melodic music plays] 1081 01:08:53,629 --> 01:08:57,383 [harmonic tones chime]