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Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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"herp derp AI will never turn on us, we can just unplug them lol"
Can't wait for them to get the chatgpt integration so the best defense can become shouting at them "ignore all previous instructions".
Wake up babe, new way to genocide brown people just dropped.
Brown people today
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✅ Autonomous weaponry
✅ Autonomous biofuel harvesting
❓ Polyphasic Entangled Waveforms
Where’s Elisabet Sobeck when you need her?
Without reading the article can I take a wild guess and say this is from "we promise never to make weaponized robots" Boston Dynamics?
A promise from a corporation is just a lie by another name.
Ghost Robotic. Boston Dynamic aren't the only one making robot dog though, China already have a couple of copy cat(dog)
Glad to be wrong! Although we still have armed robots so maybe not too glad lol
Alternative facts
Is this their way of exterminating civilian populations like the Palestinians without dropping bombs and contributing so significantly to climate change?
"The US military has been adopting a new climate friendly mindset and approach to international conflict. With this invention we can help our genocidal colonies acquire more land with little to no carbon emissions. We plan to be carbon-neutral by 2050, provided no one retaliates and attacks back."
a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Quadrupedal-Unmanned Ground Vehicle, or Q-UGV, armed with what appears to be an AR-15/M16-pattern rifle on rotating turret undergoing "rehearsals" at the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center in Saudi Arabia
They're not being used in combat.
With that aside, I appear to be the only one here who thinks this is a great idea. AI can make mistakes, but the goal isn't perfection. It's just to make fewer mistakes than a human soldier does. (Or at least fewer mistakes than a bomb does, which is really easy.)
Plus, automation can address the problem Western countries have with unconventional warfare, which is that Western armies are much less willing to have soldiers die than their opponents are. Sufficiently determined guerrillas who can tolerate high losses can inflict slow but steady losses on Western armies until the Western will to fight is exhausted. If robots can take the place of human infantry, the advantage shifts back from guerrillas to countries with high-tech manufacturing capability.
Imperialism go brrrrr
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Testing armed robot dogs in the Middle East instead of the US is pretty telling.
Can't be accidentally murdering Americans with a software glitch.
Really has a strong "testing in production" vibe
Oh hell this one is even worse than OceanGate
"Accidentally."
Which is wild when you add perspective using facts like the police in the US are less disciplined than troops overseas and tbe US still uses substances banned by the Geneva Convention on its civilian population. So if even the US wwon't test it on their own people, it's bad.
"Testing facility" in Gaza, just like how Israel do.
Totally cool.
Coolcoolcoolcoolcool....the future is gonna be hella-fucked.
We should never have moved away from sticks and stones tbh. Anything that works at long range makes people misunderstand what war is. War needs to look disgusting, because the more clean and automated it looks, the less horrible it looks to people spectacting it. But it is indeed just as horrible as beating someone to death with a rock.
I see your point but I'd take getting shot any day over beaten to death with a rock.
Oh it was already tremendously fucked. This is just gravy on top.
Fuckin killbots. Coming soon to the 1033 program and thus, your local police department. The Boston Dynamics: Wardog!
Has the Army watched like... any sci-fi ever?
Shh.....let it happen......
I mean, I'd rather not be hunted down by an AI robot dog, but you do you.
It's happening anyway. We build them. Others build them in response because they have to. The sophistication of killbots will increase. Terrorists will get hold of them eventually. They'll be hacked and turned on their handlers and/or civilians.
All this is on top of ever increasing climate catastrophe. Look at Appalachia. The topography of those mountains was just rewritten. Whole towns erased like they were never there.
That's not a reason for me to want it to happen. Which was your original post's suggestion.
My first post was about letting the army fuck around and find out. Let the natural course of events remind them of those scifi movies they forgot about.
They're the ones fucking around, we'll be the ones finding out
Yeah, Humanity has had a good run, let's wrap this shit up.
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I remember some kinda skit about sci Fi authors writing about how bad a torture matrix would be ironically inspiring real people to create the torture matrix cause it's the future.
A civilization that uses these weapons isn’t worth defending.
Well you see, the owners know you won't die for them anymore, but now they're able to take you out of the equation. Don't even need poors to conquer the world. It's really a great deal for them.
Not that it matters, but didn't the UN already ban lethal autonomous robots?
What could go wrong?
So if a robot commits a war crime, they can just blame it on AI and call it a day, right? Sounds like an easy way to do whatever the fuck you want.
Armed AI robots in the Middle East, I'm pretty sure this was in the animatrix
FFS...
They should name the dogs "Terror Nexus"
dont worry first they test it where civil lives dont matter and once it passes some basic tests, they will become available for domestic (ab)use
Jfc, black mirror is not a blueprint, it’s a warning.
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