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I don’t think you can do this anymore, cats out of the bag. I mean hypothetically anyone can kill someone with a drone right now and it would be pretty hard to
by bergenty 4y ago
I don’t think you can do this anymore, cats out of the bag. I mean hypothetically anyone can kill someone with a drone right now and it would be pretty hard to track down who did it. Just have a drone with a gun or knife attached and fly down at the person as they leave the house. Have you seen FPV drones? They’re extremely responsive, fast and small. You could do it from miles away, even another country.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> cats out of the bag. Yeah, the autonomous weapons cat left the bag decades ago. Acoustic homing torpedoes were first used during WW2, and became very sophisticated during the Cold War. Missiles that can be fired blind and left to find their own targets were also developed during the Cold War, like the (since discontinued) anti-ship variant of the Tomahawk. "Autonomous weapon" describes a lot of systems already in use. Banning them all is DOA in America, let alone in Russia/China/etc. They're too useful to ban. America won't even sign the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines (because the American military considers them important in Korea.)
- bergenty 4y agoThere’s a difference here though. Someone could decide to do something and have it ready to go the next day with a prime delivery and like a hundred bucks.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoAnything like that is already banned for civilians (not that it will stop somebody clever and motivated enough..) The question is whether the American government would accept banning itself from having autonomous weapons. I think they wouldn't; they're too useful and already normalized.