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>Hobbyists have already mounted guns on quadcopters. ISIS has actually already used (remote controlled) quadcopters to conduct grenade strikes. https://www.c4
by Symmetry 8y ago
>Hobbyists have already mounted guns on quadcopters.
ISIS has actually already used (remote controlled) quadcopters to conduct grenade strikes.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/uas/2018/01/05/how-650-drones-are-creating-problems-in-iraq-and-syria/ https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/uas/2018/01/05/how-650-dro...
You can make a distinction between human-in-the-loop weapons versus human-on-the-loop supervision versus robots killing with no supervision. But of course landmines have been completely autonomous weapons since the US civil war. It's a place where it's really hard to make bright line distinctions.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago> But of course landmines have been completely autonomous weapons since the US civil war. Excellent point.
- phkahler 8y agoI was going to bring up landmines but I googled it first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Ban_Landmines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Ban_... It is not a bad comparison. I can even imagine a robot/drone sent it with orders to kill everyone in a certain area. It gets lost or whatever and runs out of power. Years later some kid finds it, charges it up and turns it on...
- robotresearcher 8y agoSpiked pits, poisoned wells, bear traps and caltrops have been around a whole lot longer than landmines and have most of the properties in question. This is not a new issue.