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I was thinking about this other day. it's not too hard weaponize a drone. this is our worst nightmare. can you imagine people getting assassinated from an ak-47

I was thinking about this other day. it's not too hard weaponize a drone. this is our worst nightmare. can you imagine people getting assassinated from an ak-47 fired from a quadrotor heavy duty drone? Like this is straight out of the tv series Dark Angels with Jessica Alba. Imagine if we lived in a country where tech was as advanced as we were and the government was powerless and anarchy ruled. These killer drones would be a reality. you could have armies of these. if they became autonomous with the facial recognition which is possible now, it would be a cinch for law enforcement or terrorists to take anyone out. my biggest fear is law enforcement or government agencies deploying such autonomous self flying drones hooked up to a giant database of human faces and their every little communication and using deep machine learning to predict someone who is about to commit a crime and quickly deploy itself and apprehend the would be criminal or even more chilling, taking them out. edit: I just realized that in parts of the world, this is already taking place. Chilling because it's already a reality and imagine if we, the free West, lived under constant fear of drones flying over our heads, watching entire houses or car infront of you get blown up without warning, vowing vengeance and to join a resistance against the drone wielding country.

drivingmenuts 12y ago
I'd be more worried about the "down with the state" loonies or one of their followers doing this than the government. With the government, you have a chance to see what's coming. You almost never find out about the whacko who saved up, bought a gun and shot up a school until it's too late. Is it possible that the government might, in some way, turn on it's citizens? Sure, if it can be justified as "for the children" or "fighting terror" or any number of inane excuses. My guess, though, is that it will be a civilian with a drone and grandiose dreams of "liberating America from it's oppressors" who will make our fears of drones a real thing.

drivingmenuts 12y ago

I'd be more worried about the "down with the state" loonies or one of their followers doing this than the government. With the government, you have a chance to see what's coming. You almost never find out about the whacko who saved up, bought a gun and shot up a school until it's too late. Is it possible that the government might, in some way, turn on it's citizens? Sure, if it can be justified as "for the children" or "fighting terror" or any number of inane excuses. My guess, though, is that it will be a civilian with a drone and grandiose dreams of "liberating America from it's oppressors" who will make our fears of drones a real thing.