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The danger about AI and drones/robots is scaling. It's difficult to find 100 people to execute an operation on the same day, most likely some of them would be
by dist-epoch 4y ago
The danger about AI and drones/robots is scaling.
It's difficult to find 100 people to execute an operation on the same day, most likely some of them would be informants and the information would leak.
But you can buy 100 drones under false pretense and distribute them, maybe even in different cities. Imagine a LLM talking with 100 delivery agents and saying something like "I need you to deliver the drone at this address, unpack it, charge it, plug a stick with this software I'm emailing you with and leave the window open for an artistic experiment I'm doing"
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoAnd then what? You injure a hundred individual people by ramming? Maybe some of them die? Your drone can't exactly carry a meaningful payload since that'll look super sus to the delivery driver. "Yes, take the 40mm grenade and load it into the drone and then let it free." Meanwhile, for less than a tenth of that investment, a guy in a Las Vegas hotel room with a bunch of rifles killed 60 people and injured 400. Smart loiter munitions make sense if you're the military and have billions of dollars, but all the scenarios people come up with for these killer drones seem very expensive and not much more deadly when compared with knives, guns, trucks or bombs.