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> Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield. Turkey is part of NATO. > China, Iran, and Russia do (they s
by antisthenes 4y ago
> Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield.
Turkey is part of NATO.
> China, Iran, and Russia do (they surely do or soon will), we are at massive disadvantage.
Countries like Iran and Russia aren't able to sustain an electronics industry to produce something as complicated as AI Computer vision drones. I hope I don't need to explain why.
> We will have to deploy humans on the field when they won't have to. That is a gap too wide to exist. It is more fundamental than gunpowder.
This is unsubstantiated fear mongering. The economies are too intertwined for either US or China to deploy their forces full-scale. If we ever get to the point of a full-scale confrontation, some AI-drones will be the least of your worries.
> AI scientists of today should help develop autonomous killing machines. Freedom isn't free.
Yikes.
- loudmax 4y ago> The economies are too intertwined for either US or China to deploy their forces full-scale. This was was a common belief about Europe before World War One. Unfortunately, that didn't prevent the carnage. I tend to agree with you about the existential danger of full-scale confrontation. And to be fair, your concerns about these weapon systems are well founded. These things are really dangerous and we need to think very carefully about how they're developed and deployed. But as we see in Ukraine, there's a lot of scope for limited confrontation. In this case we'll want access to deadlier weapons than our enemies have access to. To those of us that believe in liberal democracy, this isn't just about one team vs another. This really is about living in a world where freedom is the norm rather than living in fear of an autocrat.