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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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[-] halfempty@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Just don't stand in front of any natural resources.

[-] krimson@feddit.nl 33 points 1 year ago
[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] laxu@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The Nebuchadnezzar was commissioned in 2069 in The Matrix series.

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I have active interest in open source versions of this kind of thing.

[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

I see no reason this could end poorly

/s

[-] REdOG@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

This journalism is as shitty as most software is at AI

[-] EmoBean@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Cut the mesh part out of the door on your microwave. Your TV meal warmer is the governments biggest enemy.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Your corneas will be having a word with you, and quickly.

[-] EmoBean@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I like when microwave give me warm brain hug

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It'd certainly explain some gun control comments.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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[-] iopq@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Drone flies up over Kherson Oblast. It asks you to pronounce паляниця.

You best not stutter

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] misanthropy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You have your ai voice generator say it, pronounced perfect

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

then why do we need generals?

[-] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed. What horrors can be wrought by man alone.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

... dude, the takeaway from the military using killbots shouldn't be "we should let police use killbots too!"

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So quick to jump to extremes. Does your imagination take you only as far as "killbot"?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Well police kill people with every other tool we give them so...

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

They've already blown people up with robots.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And there we go, thinking meat is off. No critical thought to be found, just parroting what the masses are screeching.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Watch out guys, we got a lone wolf here

lol

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

The evidence backs up the screeching, though.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, you just parrot what you hear on Paw Patrol πŸ˜‚

Cops are not your friends.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, if you're interested, it comes mostly from Police Activity, Code Blue Cam, and for a while, Donut Operator. Good channels. Police Activity is particularly unbiased and publishes body cam footage without narrative of the good and bad side of law enforcement, including the arrests of LEOs.

I have no delusions about cops being friends. I follow the pot brothers' advice to shut the fuck up (to the greatest extent my country's laws allow). But at the same time, persecuting an entire demographic based on their uniform is not only unproductive but dangerous. A person who is immediately confrontational towards cops (e.g. refusing to identify or follow orders while detained, or just being a dick) only invites a greater magnitude of response. It's like kicking a snarling dog - you'll get bit.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I certainly agree that cops are like snarling dogs, but that's no reason to give them killbots! I'm a good girl and meekly do what I'm told when the nice man with the gun and license to kill tells me to obey. I'm not going to fucking censor myself on the god damn Internet, though!

Also? Cops are not being persecuted. That's a joke.

[-] kebabslob 5 points 1 year ago

Alex Jones go home

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The word "police" isn't used once in the article you rage baiting dork

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I don't think the people who were against that robot are the same people who are supporting autonomous killer drones

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're hanging men and women for the wearing of the blue, but I'm not allowed to generalize an entire demographic? How does that work?

[-] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The last mob killing of a police officer I can name is when that guy got his skull caved in by Jan 6th rioters, thats the only thing close to "hanging.. for weraing the blue" i can name.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Command and control? What's that?

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