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It won't any time soon be robots vs. robots, because that (with our current tech level) would imply superpowers fighting, and they'd just skip the battlefield a
by JulianMorrison 13y ago
It won't any time soon be robots vs. robots, because that (with our current tech level) would imply superpowers fighting, and they'd just skip the battlefield and go straight to ICBMs. Or not fight.
What it will be, is robots vs. guys with AK 47s, robots vs. third-world armies. It would look a whole lot like "Terminator", and the bloodshed would be apocalyptic.
- bcoates 13y agoI'm not even that optimistic, it will almost certainly be robots vs. civilians simultaneous with guys with AK-47s and car bombs vs the other side's civilians. Nobody's going to intentionally get in a stand-up shooting match with robot, unless the robots are so expensive and impractical that you can win a war of attrition against them by bankrupting the country building them.
- mc32 13y agoAs I mentioned in another reply, this could work very well in peacekeeping missions. I can buy into UN sanctioned missions, for example. Send in a robot army to stop the internal fighting --this would make (a United) nations less reluctant to go in and stop civil wars and genocide.