The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans
The use of drones capable of deciding whether to kill humans is alarming critics.
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For everyone who’s against this, just remember that we can’t put the genie back in the bottle. Like the A Bomb, this will be a fact of life in the near future.
All one can do is adapt to it.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge anything.
Similarly, if you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge war crimes tribunals.
Oh snap
There is a key difference though.
The A bomb wasn't a technology that as the arms race advanced enough would develop the capacity to be anywhere between a conscientious objector to an usurper.
There's a prisoner's dilemma to arms races that in this case is going to lead to world powers effectively paving the path to their own obsolescence.
In many ways, that's going to be uncharted territory for us all (though not necessarily a bad thing).