Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a nice thought but they referenced land mines. The idea that an AI shooting a soldier could cause a conflict spiral could happen with a land mine. Not to mention humans make mistakes too. A human soldier could the same (and has). Automated sentry guns have already been around for over 10 years.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One of the closest times we came to nuclear annihilation is when a Soviet nuclear detection system malfunctioned and said the US launched a nuke. The human operator determined the system was most likely at fault and they decided not to do anything.
Neither are infallible but if a computer gets bad data it doesn’t know it’s bad data.