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Artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. A story about an AI-powered drone deciding to try to exterminate its human operator for becoming an obstacle to its mission just went viral, after a report that Colonel Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, the chief of AI test and operations for the US Air Force, told a Royal Aeronautical Society conference about the incident. On Friday, the RAS said Hamilton “misspoke,” and was discussing a hypothetical “thought experiment” based on plausible scenarios and likely outcomes rather than a real-world example.