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I think that "AI" weapons can definitely be more dangerous if they can determine the difference between civilians and enemy soldiers. Imagine if there was an AI

I think that "AI" weapons can definitely be more dangerous if they can determine the difference between civilians and enemy soldiers. Imagine if there was an AI weapon which you could use without on a massive scale without worrying about civilian casualties, I would consider it much more dangerous because people would be more willing to use it than nukes. But in general I agree that, since the world is very safe right now even though we have nukes, AI weapons probably won't be the difference that gets us WW III.

hodgesrm 9y ago
That's how things work already without any artificial intelligence whatsoever. The US calculates risk of collateral damage for air strikes and has been quite willing to use them as well when the risk is low. They have done this for decades. Also, it's hard to argue that the world is "very safe" with nukes. All one can say is they have not been used recently. That's unlikely to last forever--or even much longer--the way things are going. The US and USSR barely avoided using them [0] and some of the current owners are a lot less stable. [0] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 for one example.