I don’t agree with your answer to your rhetorical question. A kitchen knife can cause injury and death pretty easily, but while it can be a weapon I wouldn’t say that kitchen knives are “inherently a weapons technology”. A brick can cause injury and death pretty easily too, and bricks are certainly not “inherently a weapons technology”.
I would only say that something is “inherently a weapons technology” if (1) a major motivation for its development is (broadly speaking) military and/or (2) what it’s best at is causing injury, destruction and death.
Military organizations have put quite a lot of effort into AI, but so have plenty of non-military organizations and it looks to me as if the latter have had much more (visible) success than the former. And so far, the things AI has proven most useful for are things like distinguishing cats from dogs, translating text, and beating humans at board games. Those (or things like them) may well have military applications, but they aren’t weapons. (Not even when applied militarily. A better way of spotting enemy tanks makes your weapons more effective, but it isn’t itself a weapon.)
Both you and Dagon can point your fingers wherever you like. The more interesting question is where it’s useful to point your fingers.
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I don’t agree with your answer to your rhetorical question. A kitchen knife can cause injury and death pretty easily, but while it can be a weapon I wouldn’t say that kitchen knives are “inherently a weapons technology”. A brick can cause injury and death pretty easily too, and bricks are certainly not “inherently a weapons technology”.
I would only say that something is “inherently a weapons technology” if (1) a major motivation for its development is (broadly speaking) military and/or (2) what it’s best at is causing injury, destruction and death.
Military organizations have put quite a lot of effort into AI, but so have plenty of non-military organizations and it looks to me as if the latter have had much more (visible) success than the former. And so far, the things AI has proven most useful for are things like distinguishing cats from dogs, translating text, and beating humans at board games. Those (or things like them) may well have military applications, but they aren’t weapons. (Not even when applied militarily. A better way of spotting enemy tanks makes your weapons more effective, but it isn’t itself a weapon.)
Both you and Dagon can point your fingers wherever you like. The more interesting question is where it’s useful to point your fingers.