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>AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea. AI weapons seems like an inevitability.

• Manuel_D 2y ago
  "AI" weapons have existed for the better part of a century. The first generation sidewinder missile autonomously homed in on a target. It's logic was simple, and it needed a bright exhaust plume to seek, but it's an autonomously guided munition nonetheless. Making a quadcopter with a claymore strapped to it home in on enemy troops using image recognition and visible spectrum cameras isn't fundamentally all that different. Most of the complaints - e.g. the potential for friendly fire - existed with older weaponry too. That sidewinder is just going to home in on the hottest IR signature , which may be friendly if employed carelessly.
  • codingrightnow 2y ago
    In one example, there (most likely) aren't any innocent civilians hanging around. In the other there will certainly be innocent civilians on the other end.
    • Manuel_D 2y ago
      Are there many civilians in the trenches of eastern Ukraine? Again, the discourse around AI weapons seems to consistently neglect the fact that these are already being deployed.