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One important distinction, though - lethal drones should not be making decisions.
by jaysonelliot 2y ago
One important distinction, though - lethal drones should not be making decisions.
- michaelt 2y agoArguably you're right. But the makers of lethal autonomous drones would probably claim their product is really more like a cruise missile or fire-and-forget missile, where there's only a human in the loop at the moment of launch and things are autonomous thereafter.
- nyolfen 2y agothis consensus will last until the first actor defects
- mrguyorama 2y agoThis consensus doesn't exist. Computers have been designating targets and commanding attacks since at least the 60s. The Phalanx CIWS for example is designed to be run in fully automatic mode, choosing which radar contacts to engage and when to open fire on them. There's even already been friendly fire incidents from the system. Modern anti-ship missiles, torpedos, and BVR missiles also are designed with the ability to "go to this point in space and then find yourself a target and kill it" We automated target selection and tasking in warships shortly after the second world war, to combat the fact that we expected the soviets to send 200 missiles at a task force at once, and didn't think humans could manage that kind of task load. If you turn the right keys in an Arleigh Burke, every single human can leave the command part of the ship and it will still shoot planes out of the sky, all automated.
- daedrdev 2y agoSay some human decides have the drone attack a target, and the drone takes care of the entire fight itself