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> You're making the bold assumption that the robots will actually work, instead of wasting ammunition on all the wrong targets, including friendlies I could ea
by lordlic 7y ago
> You're making the bold assumption that the robots will actually work, instead of wasting ammunition on all the wrong targets, including friendlies
I could easily imagine the US military deploying autonomous combat bots to some middle-eastern country unaccompanied by human troops. They would care approximately zero about wasted ammo, and we already know from our drone strike policy what the military thinks about accidentally killing non-combatants. As long as there are no Americans around to get killed by rogue bots, it doesn't really matter how much collateral damage they cause, within reason.
- yorwba 7y agoThe US military may not care whether their toys work or not, but that doesn't mean they will be gaining a critical advantage from not caring, just as accidentally droning non-combatants hasn't given them a critical advantage.
- paganel 7y agoIt gets them the critical advantage of consolidating power at home through more money (via more military-related contracts), which "more money" oftentimes equates with more political power (at least in Western-like societies). The "more power" part has always been an end in itself.