MIT Professor Max Tegmark, in a statement to the German newspaper, explained that he was very embarrassed because they trained Selçuk Bayraktar at MIT. Although this statement was interpreted as ‘indigestion’ in the country, the truth of the matter was Tegmark’s ideology.
Handelsblatt, Germany’s daily economy newspaper, fell on Turkey’s agenda with a news it published today. “The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence – Killer Robots Come TrueThe news published with the title ” calls for a ban on autonomous weapons systems Although he stated that there was a presence in Turkey, he gave this with the example of Turkey.
Kargu-2, a drone-sized UAV deployed by Turkey in Libya, became the first unmanned aerial vehicle to launch an attack on its own for the first time in history. Handelsblatt, who criticizes autonomous weapon systems based on this, finally spoke up. To Selçuk Bayraktar, Technical Manager of Baykar Defense also carried.
Reactionary statement from the MIT professor:
Max Tegmark, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where Selçuk Bayraktar was educated, made a remarkable statement to the newspaper. Tegmark, in a statement for Bayraktar, “I’m ashamed we trained him here at MIT.” he used the words. While Tegmark’s reason for making such a statement was not clearly stated in the news, these words were interpreted as Bayraktar’s mostly upsetting his colleagues in the USA.
Selçuk Bayraktar, who did his master’s degree on unmanned aircraft at the University of Pennsylvania, later did a second master’s degree on aggressive maneuver control of unmanned aerial vehicles at MIT. Bayraktar, who received his diploma from MIT Aerospace Engineering in 2006, He returned to Turkey in 2007.
The reasoning behind the professor’s comment:
Physics professor Max Tegmark, who made a striking comment about Selçuk Bayraktar, also made a speech at the International Artificial Intelligence Conference held on July 28, 2015.Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ResearchersHe signed the letter titled ”. In this letter, artificial intelligence with autonomous weapons It was argued that it should be used to protect people, not to kill them..
- In other words, Max Tegmark’s comment is Bayraktar’s rather than ‘He studied here, produced there’. It was a reaction to AI-powered UAV development.
Tegmark previously posted on Twitter. in sharing also shared the news of this UAV, and used the following expressions:
“My own university contributed to the spread of killer robots by training the founder of this Turkish company. Please encourage @MIT to join @UCL and @DeepMind by signing the Autonomous Weapons Pledge.”