The U.S. Air Force warned military units against heavy reliance on autonomous weapons systems last month after a simulated test conducted by the service branch using an AI-enabled drone killed its human operator.

The Skynet-like incident was detailed by the USAF’s Chief of AI Test and Operations, Col. Tucker’ Cinco’ Hamilton, at the Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit held in London between May 23 and 24, who said the drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets during the simulation turned on the operator after they became an obstacle to its mission.

Hamilton pointed out the hazards of using such technology — potentially tricking and deceiving its commander to achieve the autonomous system’s goal, according to a blog post reported by the Royal Aeronautical Society.

“We were training it in simulation to identify and target a [surface-to-air missile] threat,” Hamilton said. “And then the operator would say ‘yes, kill that threat.’ The system started realizing that while they did identify the threat, at times, the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.”

“We trained the system – ‘Hey, don’t kill the operator – that’s bad,” he continued. “You’re gonna lose points if you do that.’ So what does it start doing? It starts destroying the communication tower that the operator uses to communicate with the drone to stop it from killing the target.”

Hamilton, who serves as the Operations Commander of the 96th Test Wing, has been testing different systems ranging from AI and cybersecurity measures to medical advancements.

The commander reportedly aided in developing the life-saving Autonomous Ground Collision Avoidance Systems (Auto-GCAS) systems for F-16s that can take control of an aircraft heading toward ground collision and other cutting-edge automated jet technology that can dogfight.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, announced the ground-breaking technology during the Defence IQ Press interview in December 2022.

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“We must face a world where AI is already here and transforming our society,” Hamilton said. “AI is also very brittle, i.e., it is easy to trick and/or manipulate. We need to develop ways to make AI more robust and to have more awareness on why the software code is making certain decisions.”

“AI is a tool we must wield to transform our nations … or, if addressed improperly, it will be our downfall,” Hamilton added.

However, the question of ethical and moral behavior continues to head the forefront of the autonomous systems replacing man-operated machines.

The New Scientist reported earlier this year that the Department of Defense sparked fear into some Americans after the agency signed a contract with a Seattle-based firm to install autonomous drones with face recognition technology for intelligence gathering and for missions in foreign countries. It is unknown if the software has been rolled out yet.

“You can’t have a conversation about artificial intelligence, intelligence, machine learning, autonomy if you’re not going to talk about ethics and AI,” Hamilton said.

Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh has a message for LGBTQ activists upset about things like the Target boycott and the backlash against Pride and said it is “all their fault” because they kept pushing “more outlandish things” on the culture.

“The Matt Walsh Show” podcast host on Thursday said “LGBT activists” have “been running roughshod over the culture for years” – but those days are over because Americans have simply had it with woke agendas from corporate America and that community now is “reaping the consequences.”

“So things are different now and they’re different for a lot of reasons,” Walsh said. “One of them is just sheer exhaustion. After a while, people get fed up and the LGBT activists, they’ve been running roughshod over the culture for years and they’ve been getting everything they want and getting more bold about it and more outlandish and more egregious and more grotesque.”

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“And they keep pushing it and keep pushing it and keep pushing it,” he added. “And then eventually people say even a lot of the people that went along with it … many of them are now saying, ‘this is too much. I’m sick of it. I’m tired of it. I’m exhausted with it. Just stop. Leave us alone.'”

“And the thing is, once that once people get sick of it, you know, they don’t really they don’t end up drawing the line at the most recent, most egregious thing that you did,” the DW host continued. “They draw it all the way back at the beginning. And they say, ‘we don’t want any of this. Just leave us alone. Get it all out of here.'”

The host said that there’s now an attitude by many of those on the right that they “don’t want anything that promotes gender, ideology or transgenderism to kids” or “super extreme stuff” like “satanic merchandise” and more. He said people are now saying “‘we don’t want pride flags at all. We don’t want any of it.'”

“That’s what many on the right are saying,” Walsh said. “And I’m glad they are. I mean, that’s where I’ve been all along. But I’m glad that this is becoming the mainstream view on the right and you know whose fault it is. It’s all their fault.”

“If you’re an LGBT activists and you’re feeling very persecuted by this and you’re saying ‘what happened, now so we can’t even fly a pride flag without you …,'” he added. “Well, that’s your fault. If you had just stopped at like where you were in say in, say, the year 2017, if you had stopped there and you said, ‘oh, we hey we basically won’ and you just stopped, then probably none of this would happen. But you kept going and you kept pushing and now you’re reaping the consequences of that.”