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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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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 31 points 10 months ago (2 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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I think the other side hacking them and turning them against their owners is more likely as it will be cheaper and easier to do that making your own robots. Zero chance that these will be unhackable as they will still have remote communication.