Comment on The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans

• gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, an important point you and him. Both forget to mention is that mines are considered inhumane. Perhaps that means AI murdering should also be considered. Inhumane, and we should just not do it instead of allowing landmines.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This, jesus, we're still losing limbs and clearing mines from wars that were over decades ago.

    An autonomous field of those is horror movie stuff.

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• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine a mine that could move around, target seek, refuel, rearm, and kill hundreds of people without human intervention.

  Pretty sure the entire DOD got a collective boner reading this.

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  • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And NonCredibleDefense

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• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine a mine that could move around, target seek, refuel, rearm, and kill hundreds of people without human intervention. Comparing an autonomous murder machine to a mine is like comparing a flint lock pistol to the fucking gattling cannon in an a10.

  For what it’s worth, there’s footage on youtube of drone swarm demonstrations that were posted 6 years ago. Considering that the military doesn’t typically release footage of the cutting edge of its tech to the public, so this demonstration was likely for a product that was already going obsolete; and that the 6 years that have passed since have made lightning fast developments in things like facial recognition… at this point I’d be surprised if we weren’t already at the very least field testing the murder machines you described.

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• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine a mine that could recognize "that's just a child/civilian/medic stepping on me, I'm going to save myself for an enemy soldier." Or a mine that could recognize "ah, CenCom just announced a ceasefire, I'm going to take a little nap." Or "the enemy soldier that just stepped on me is unarmed and frantically calling out that he's surrendered, I'll let this one go through. Not the barrier troops chasing him, though."

  There's opportunities for good here.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, those definitely sound like the sort of things military contractors consider.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why waste a mine on the wrong target?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why occupy a hospital?

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  • Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lmao are you 12?

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    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They do have the mentality of one.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @FaceDeer okay so now that mines allegedly recognise these things they can be automatically deployed in cities.

    Sure there's a 5% margin of error but that's an "acceptable" level of colateral according to their masters. And sure they are better at recognising some ethnicities than others but since those they discriminate against aren't a dominant part of the culture that peoduces them, nothing gets done about it.

    And after 20 years when the tech is obsolete and they all start malfunctioning we're left with the same problems we have with current mines, only because the ban on mines was reversed the scale of the problem is much much worse than ever before.

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  • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it starts that way but once that’s accepted as a thing the result will be increased usage of mines. Where before there were too many civilians to consider using mines, now the soldiers say “it’s smart now, it won’t blow up children” and put down more and more in more dangerous situations. And maybe those mines only have a 0.1% failure rate in tested situations but a 10% failure rate over the course of decades. Usage increases 10 fold and then you quickly end up with a lot more dead kids.

    Plus it won’t just be mines, it’ll be automated turrets when previously there were none or even more drone strikes with less oversight required because the automated system is supposed to prevent unintended casualties.

    Availability drives usage.

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  • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That sounds great… Why don’t we line the streets with them? Every entryway could scan for hostiles. Maybe even use them against criminals

    What could possibly go wrong?

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