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How does this square with US drone fleets? And drone fleets of other countries? They are controlled by humans now but automatic control is likely in developmen
by throw22817 9y ago
How does this square with US drone fleets? And drone fleets of other countries?
They are controlled by humans now but automatic control is likely in development.
In another post now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15069178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15069178
This is already a bit late. Hope we can find a way to enforce the ban if it passes. Drones are a lot easier to develop in secret than nuclear weapons. These countries already have weaponized drones: the U.S., the U.K., China, Israel, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Africa.
- gozur88 9y agoThat's just an anti-radiation missile, which have been around for decades. We already have the technology for autonomous drones, but they potentially create a huge political problem. You don't want to be the guy who authorized an autonomous drone which promptly wiped out a bus full of nuns.
- skybrian 9y agoThe idea is to ban weapons that don't have a human in the loop. As you say, hard to do. Particularly for remotely controlled weapons where it's just a matter of software.
- fapjacks 9y agoParticularly when it's been demonstrated that human beings will just rubber-stamp whatever the machine gives them.