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The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative (www.businessinsider.com)
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The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative::The unmanned aircraft are ideal for suicide missions, the Air Force says. Human rights advocates call the autonomous lethal weapons "slaughterbots."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This shit is inevitable but damn am I not looking forward to robot genocide. It'll be so much easier if all you need is some money and a few distant operators. International law won't do shit when there's money on the line.

Robot v. robot "conventional" wars won't be much better, either. Without human casualties there's not really any consequences or reason for any party to capitulate. So either you have to completely starve your opponent of resources or start targeting civilians. The latter being way more effective and cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boeing and the like are probably stocking up on extra suits as they can't stop drooling all over themselves.

War with minimal casualties just means more and more money to ~~steal from us to~~ dump into military technology corps for longer periods of time since the population won't be in an uproar over loss of life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can they at least live stream it so there is something good to watch? I am running low on bread and this circus is getting boring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

$5.8 billion for a thousand combat drones? That's incredibly cheap, especially since the implication is that this includes amortized R&D costs and the per-unit cost will eventually be even lower.

As for "slaughterbots" - I'm not sure why some people are inclined to trust human soldiers more than machines. Humans don't exactly have the best track record for minimizing violence...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think the scary part is when one guy and an obedient AI control millions of slaughterbots.

And is that better or worse than when he dies from tripping down a stairwell but the AI remembers the whole mission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The problem with slaughter bots is that the chain of command to kill can be shortened to just one person.

The chain of command for a human is much more complex and can have a moral circuit breaker in every part of that chain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@L4s seriously, has no one seen the Terminator movies?!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How bout you have the Army core of engineers build houses instead?

There are only 582,462 homeless people in America...