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One of the first cyberpunk books I read opens with a drone hit on some European business man at a company resort. It seems like we’re hell bent on making this
by eksemplar 8y ago
One of the first cyberpunk books I read opens with a drone hit on some European business man at a company resort.
It seems like we’re hell bent on making this reality. I mean, military AI is basically an inevitable future for us at this point, and while it’ll probably take a few years to leak into private hands, it eventually will, and the world will be a little more shitty for it.
Aside from that I’d rue the day the Americans get AI murder drones, especially if I was living in one of the 7 or 9 countries they are currently assassinating people in with the use of the current drone fleet. As terrible as a murder assassin drone is, it’s at least controlled by a supposedly moral being.
- Joe-Z 8y agoMeh, maybe it's not that bad. Sure, you'll get the occasional psycho trying to kill his pop-star stalker-victim. But for many high profile people - politicians, mega-corp CEOs, media tycoons - it might be a good way keeping them in line, knowing 'the people' can finally strike back again. For most normal/low-profile people this won't be a profile... since most of us don't have arch-enemies. (Playing devil's advocate here, so please take this with a grain of salt ;))
- bendoernberg 8y agoSounds like the "Assassination Market" theory of decentralizing power from the 1990s.
- chobeat 8y agoNo future is inevitable. That's what the californian ideology convinced you of.