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I took the title to mean that human commanders will deliberately choose to deploy an autonomous robot configured to kill a person or persons (as opposed to a ro
by hollerith 2y ago
I took the title to mean that human commanders will deliberately choose to deploy an autonomous robot configured to kill a person or persons (as opposed to a robot's killing a person, but the death was unwanted and unforeseen by the commanders).
- yawpitch 2y agoYeah, my point is that’s kinda already been done, if we include modern “smart” landmines and loitering munitions. Honestly, I think this threshold is arguably behind us, but I’d also say if it isn’t it will be in a lot less than a decade.
- potato3732842 2y agoMy money is on automated AA systems near some inland border where commercial flights just so happen to never go nabbing a crop duster, surveying aircraft or SAR/med chopper because some comedy of errors resulted in the device getting put on way too hair trigger of a setting.
- tim333 2y agoHuman operated AA systems regularly shoot down the wrong thing so unless the automated systems are much better than us it seems pretty certain.