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Honestly I've been wondering for years why this is not already happening routinely. Not that I hope it, but I would say that even right now move a small bomb on
by giomasce 3y ago
Honestly I've been wondering for years why this is not already happening routinely. Not that I hope it, but I would say that even right now move a small bomb on a drone and letting it explode close to a random target should be quite easy for lightly organized movements, let alone modern armies. Why is so hard for the US to launch a horde of exploding drones towards Putin at the next time he sets foot outside of a building? Or for Russia to do the same for Biden?
Again, I don't hope that's our future, I just cannot understand why it's not our present already.
- rawgabbit 3y agoThe civilian drones used by Ukraine is made possible by Starlink satellite dishes. Without Starlink, the real time spotting is not possible. The US at least wants a human pressing the button and is not willing to let AI make a lethal order.
- kvonhorn 3y ago> The US at least wants a human pressing the button and is not willing to let AI make a lethal order. I'm old enough to remember exactly how crazy the US went after 9/11. It's going to take exactly one surprise attack on the US before it puts out the first weapons contracts for automated killbots.
- yowzadave 3y ago> I just cannot understand why it's not our present already. In the case of US/Russia, I assume it's the prospect of mutually assured destruction that keeps our respective leaders from assassinating each other.
- giomasce 3y agoThat's not convincing: such a technique could still be in use since quite long for less sensitive targets; or it could be used by less "responsible" actors. Again, it doesn't look like the kind of stuff that you need to be the CIA to do.