• 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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      10 months 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!

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      10 months 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.

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      10 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.

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        10 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.

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    10 months ago

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

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    10 months 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.

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        10 months 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.

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

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            10 months 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?

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              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.