Toby Walsh on evil AI

With the hype over ChatGPT, we might have missed the most consequential AI story of 2022. According to Toby Walsh, one of the world’s leading AI authorities, Ukraine represents the first robot war of the 21st century. We might be choosing to overlook it, he suggests, because in Ukraine it’s the good guys who are using an AI defense against a more conventional army. But war fought by drones is our common future, Walsh predicts. And we need to regulate the robots, he warns, before they regulate us.