INTERVIEW/ Peter Singer: Humans must be held responsible for decisions AI weapons make

Published on March 25, 2024



The world must create a system in which humans bear moral responsibility for the deployment of increasingly intelligent and autonomous weapons based on artificial intelligence, a U.S. national security expert said.

Peter Singer, a professor at Arizona State University, said Israel’s Habsora (Gospel) AI system may have contributed to the massive number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip but that humans must be held responsible for the consequences because they set its parameters.

In a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun, Singer, who is familiar with AI weapons and robotic wars, said humans face two unprecedented moral issues with the emergence of AI and its application to robotics, which he compares to an industrial revolution.

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