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Preface: of course these things can do a world of good, fearless super-strong firefighters, medics immune to toxins, etc. So, people here are saying we already
by PostOnce 7y ago
Preface: of course these things can do a world of good, fearless super-strong firefighters, medics immune to toxins, etc.
So, people here are saying we already have xyz dangerous machine, but xyz isn't as scary. So let's imagine why this is scarier:
These things will be able to see in 360 degree multispectral/thermal/sound vision, and aim six arms at multiple people through walls simultaneously, never sleep, rarely need to recharge/eat, and have absolutely no empathy or mercy. They can aim and fire faster and more accurately than people, every shot can be a guaranteed kill, and they can be immune to gas/bio/etc weapons which they can release themselves. Nevermind the local terabytes and cloud petabytes of face recognition, AI models, social media profiles tied to street addresses, etc. They'll find everyone fast. Terminator was a joke compared. The next war is going to be insane.
People are in control of most all our killing machines now, but won't be soon. We did manage to stop using chem/bioweapons and nuclear weapons though. So maybe there's hope.
edit: when I say we won't be in control, I don't mean wild robots that won't listen to us, I mean we choose to run them on auto mode with no human confirmation before firing. I think such systems already exist on the Korean DMZ? (just auto guns, not robots)
- imtringued 7y agoDo you know what else has no mercy? American drone pilots. If you can find a way to make money with something then it will happen. Terrorists are basically doing it recreationally, so they quickly run out of money and manpower and very rarely do they have much of an impact. Nowadays the average terrorist runs around with a knife and announces his attack way before he reaches the victim and often gets beaten by the victim instead.