The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative::The unmanned aircraft are ideal for suicide missions, the Air Force says. Human rights advocates call the autonomous lethal weapons “slaughterbots.”
$5.8 billion on useless bullshit but we “can’t afford” universal healthcare.
Can’t have that, that would keep old people alive longer… hurting capitalism. People only have value when they can contribute directly to the market.
$5.8 billion for a thousand combat drones? That’s incredibly cheap, especially since the implication is that this includes amortized R&D costs and the per-unit cost will eventually be even lower.
As for “slaughterbots” - I’m not sure why some people are inclined to trust human soldiers more than machines. Humans don’t exactly have the best track record for minimizing violence…
I think the scary part is when one guy and an obedient AI control millions of slaughterbots.
And is that better or worse than when he dies from tripping down a stairwell but the AI remembers the whole mission.
The problem with slaughter bots is that the chain of command to kill can be shortened to just one person.
The chain of command for a human is much more complex and can have a moral circuit breaker in every part of that chain.
https://xkcd.com/1968/ so here we are
How about no
This shit is inevitable but damn am I not looking forward to robot genocide. It’ll be so much easier if all you need is some money and a few distant operators. International law won’t do shit when there’s money on the line.
Robot v. robot “conventional” wars won’t be much better, either. Without human casualties there’s not really any consequences or reason for any party to capitulate. So either you have to completely starve your opponent of resources or start targeting civilians. The latter being way more effective and cheaper.
Boeing and the like are probably stocking up on extra suits as they can’t stop drooling all over themselves.
War with minimal casualties just means more and more money to
steal from us todump into military technology corps for longer periods of time since the population won’t be in an uproar over loss of life.Can they at least live stream it so there is something good to watch? I am running low on bread and this circus is getting boring.
I think the other side hacking them and turning them against their owners is more likely as it will be cheaper and easier to do that making your own robots. Zero chance that these will be unhackable as they will still have remote communication.
What could go wrong?
A lot. A whole lot.
Skynet taken literally
@L4s seriously, has no one seen the Terminator movies?!
The irony is you just asked this to a bot.
For what war? Dismantle the military industrial complex
How bout you have the Army core of engineers build houses instead?
There are only 582,462 homeless people in America…
Oh sweet, The Torment Nexus
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez talks about this.
Great audio book.
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