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Is our humanity really so far gone? At this rate, researchers should come together and refuse to publish further research in this area. I would hope UN can com

Is our humanity really so far gone? At this rate, researchers should come together and refuse to publish further research in this area. I would hope UN can come together and at a minimum make an arms treaty to limit/prevent/undo development of AI tools that track/hurt individual humans this way. At a pathetic bare-bones minimum, these drones should never be allowed to kill or maim humans autonomously, and must be hardcoded to "accept a surrender" if someone stops holding their hands up. If we limited chemical weapons, we can limit these terrifying abominations too.

_visgean 3y ago
Isnt the same technology used on consumer drones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7cg4Gi_BU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7cg4Gi_BU ? This is just a bit of an improvement on all that. > I would hope UN can come together and at a minimum make an arms treaty to limit/prevent/undo development of AI Well good luck getting US / China to sign something like that.
colonCapitalDee 3y ago
The only reason chemical and biological weapons aren't used in warfare is because they just aren't very useful. An equivalent amount of high explosives is more lethal, easier to deliver, easier to transport and store, and less dangerous to your own troops. Which sucks, because it implies that arms control measures for landmines, cluster munitions, autonomous drones, and nuclear weapons are probably doomed to failure. https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Zagitta 3y ago
The cat is already out of the bag. There's no meaningful way to limit access to any of this when it's purely software based and the hardware required to run it are commodities. It's nothing like chemical weapons were the reagents can be controlled as they're hard to come by or synthesise in a amateur lab.

_visgean 3y ago

Isnt the same technology used on consumer drones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7cg4Gi_BU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7cg4Gi_BU ? This is just a bit of an improvement on all that. > I would hope UN can come together and at a minimum make an arms treaty to limit/prevent/undo development of AI Well good luck getting US / China to sign something like that.

colonCapitalDee 3y ago

The only reason chemical and biological weapons aren't used in warfare is because they just aren't very useful. An equivalent amount of high explosives is more lethal, easier to deliver, easier to transport and store, and less dangerous to your own troops. Which sucks, because it implies that arms control measures for landmines, cluster munitions, autonomous drones, and nuclear weapons are probably doomed to failure. https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

Zagitta 3y ago

The cat is already out of the bag. There's no meaningful way to limit access to any of this when it's purely software based and the hardware required to run it are commodities. It's nothing like chemical weapons were the reagents can be controlled as they're hard to come by or synthesise in a amateur lab.