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>i hope the technologists who created this infrastructure think about that when they try to sleep. Yes, because people flying planes instead of drones is so mu
by deepnotderp 10y ago
>i hope the technologists who created this infrastructure think about that when they try to sleep.
Yes, because people flying planes instead of drones is so much better, right? (/s) The problem isn't in the technology people, it's in who's using it. Obama and Trump's expansions of these programs is what the problem is.
- dcposch 10y agoThe problem is both. Obviously prime responsibility lies with the decision makers--but that doesn't absolve the many people who are making a lot of money building these systems. Systems which they know will be used to kill people extrajudicially, invisibly, far from any war zone; people whose deaths will never even be acknowledged.
- deepnotderp 10y agoIn general I would agree, but isn't autonomous warfare a more humane type of war? We say that robots should take our dangerous jobs. What jobs are more dangerous than a soldier?
- rangibaby 10y agoActually it is. There are no expensive planes to operate, no crashing or pilots dying, which means there is no political risk to carrying these missions out. Just lots of brown people getting blown up, and we've seen how much people care about them.