Comment on Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army
Seudo@lemmy.world 1 year agoAutomation os the big deal. Drones have cameras so humans can make a (hopefully) informed dososiom to strike or not. When the drone doesn’t need a camera because it can make the call without a human in the loop, we have removed a vital bottleneck.
The only thing that stopped WWI from being total war is that once one generation is wipped out, it takes time to grow more troops. With autonomous weapons being manufactures autonomously by autonomously constructed factories, whoever controls the drones could of conquered the world.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, that assumes that resources and energy are unlimited. This is the main problem with any “grey goo” scenario.
And it wasn’t people being killed that stopped WW2. People are killed in every war. The defensive weaponry was more powerful than the offensive weaponry. Machine guns were only used on defense because they were heavy. Also, artillery was not mechanized so it was hard to move everything forward quickly.