2y ago

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

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        The US is among countries arguing against new laws to regulate AI-controlled killer drones.

The US, China, and others are developing so-called "killer robots."

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2y ago

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

www.businessinsider.in /international/news/the-pentagon-is-moving-toward-letting-ai-weapons-autonomously-decide-to-kill-humans/articleshow/105420637.cms

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2y ago

The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

www.businessinsider.in /international/news/the-pentagon-is-moving-toward-letting-ai-weapons-autonomously-decide-to-kill-humans/articleshow/105420637.cms

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What could possibly go wrong?
- Just don't stand in front of any natural resources.
  
  South America probably wishing they didn't discover lithium by this point
Skynet is here.
- The future in Terminator is set in the year 2029. The movies just missed the mark by a few decades so we can expect the machine uprising in 2029 and the future hellscape ruled by machines is 2049.
  
  The Nebuchadnezzar was commissioned in 2069 in The Matrix series.
- Militaries depend on poverty for labor. Recruiters don't prowl around private schools in rich neighbourhoods. They focus on poor neighbourhoods. The problem is that once general AI is achieved, and the majority of the human population become unemployable, it's gonna be hard to have people just straight mass murder the masses and cull the human population down to what is sustainable long term... That's where the AI killbots come in!
- Not only that, but imagine the harm that can be done if killer drone swarms get into the hands of bad people, such as terrorists.
  
  I have active interest in open source versions of this kind of thing.
  
  That's the entire premise behind the US and Israel hacking Iran's nuclear plants (remember Stuxnet?), they don't want Jihadists to get access to devastating weapons because they will use them against the US too, any chance they get.
I see no reason this could end poorly
/s
This journalism is as shitty as most software is at AI
Cut the mesh part out of the door on your microwave. Your TV meal warmer is the governments biggest enemy.
- Your corneas will be having a word with you, and quickly.
  
  I like when microwave give me warm brain hug
- What?
  
  I suspect they are thinking of something like this.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIMhraVcdTg
Drone flies up over Kherson Oblast. It asks you to pronounce паляниця.
You best not stutter
- That's called a shibboleth
- You have your ai voice generator say it, pronounced perfect
Military technology eventually ends up being used by law enforcement eventually. The ethical questions removed from human choice raises so many possibilities of crimes against humanity in war. What could be done when its used on it's own people?
then why do we need generals?
Command and control? What's that?
This is giving me Gundam: F91 bug vibes
- Indeed. What horrors can be wrought by man alone.
But apparently using remotely controlled robots to distract or disable active shooters is going too far because the word "police" is attached to the concept? America is fucked, man. Don't even engage your thinking meat, just go whichever way the masses are pushing.
- ... dude, the takeaway from the military using killbots shouldn't be "we should let police use killbots too!"
  
  So quick to jump to extremes. Does your imagination take you only as far as "killbot"?
- The word "police" isn't used once in the article you rage baiting dork
  
  I was referring to an earlier event where San Francisco police proposed to use remotely operated robots in barricaded suspect situations to disorient or otherwise disable a shooter without putting additional lives at risk. Like putting a stun grenade and a breaching explosive on an RC car. The proposal was rejected, with one official admitting to not even understanding it, but voting nay because police robot bad.
  That was apparently going too far, but using autonomous weapons in an international dick-waving contest is somehow okay because the targets are non-citizens on foreign soil.

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