Looking forward to the reCaptchas with “Select all images with a human being”.
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that’s not bad PR, that’s a NOBLE CAUSE that now you’re not allowed to disagree with or stop funding
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Well… both. It’s a double edged sword. On the other hand, a war that brings home no bodies or wounded soldiers can go on indefinitely, regardless of how many civilians get killed, without the US public having a problem with it at all. The costs might eventually ruffle a few feathers when people realize they don’t have social services because that’s what their tax money is being spent on, but it’s not like anyone’s getting hurt.
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That’s pretty much where we are now, isn’t it.
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Yeah, pretty much. Autonomous robot fighters just means we can have more of it, longer, with even less pushback. New wars or at least new fronts, perpetually.
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Yemen would be an example. Fought with robots on the US side.
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That’s not what the US Military is about.
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Autonomous weapons are basically instruments of suicide.
No, it’s protecting YOU from foreign invasion, you’re welcome
as well as preventing you from bothering your neighbors again
That too is not what the US military is about. That’s the usual propagandist drivel for/from trumpians.
bothering your neighbors again
That’s actually a pretty good description for the US foreign policy and use of the US military in the last 7 decades.
When fully automated armies engage on the battlefield we are only a short hop from Star Trek’s “A Taste of Armageddon.”
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It uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I feel safe now. /s I guess a person has to hit ‘Yes’ to a notification to kill a person but still.
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If the human in the loop is on that robot battlefield, they’re going to hit the dirt and mash all the buttons.
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Plus the enemy will figure out how to repair them and use them against us. Probably as RPVs, not AI controlled.
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I’m sure that U.S. enemies are aware you don’t need sophisticated technology to combat the robotic tank. You simply lure it into a stairwell.
Maybe it’s time to start work on the military version of the 6000 SUX.
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why SEVEN decades, specifically
were you bothering your neighbors eight decades ago
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Made into the 1995 film Screamers
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