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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

From 2017 https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/paul-selva-gary-peters-autonomous-weapons-killer-robots/index.html

America’s second-highest ranking military officer, Gen. Paul Selva, advocated Tuesday for “keeping the ethical rules of war in place lest we unleash on humanity a set of robots that we don’t know how to control.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That’s basically the premise of horizon zero dawn.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Once these get advanced enough and the human cost of starting a conflict goes to zero (because they most likely will be able to scale these to whatever kind of conflict is wanted) why wouldn't countries be more likely to start a war.

Or if most regular military battles only become an economic problem then why wouldn't an enemy turn towards more terrorist like attacks like happened in Russia with ISIS.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

TOS - S01E03 - ”A Taste of Armageddon”

"Death, destruction, disease, horror. That's what war is all about, Anan. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided."

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. Their dead cost nothing.

any british since William the Conqueror

We are always cheaper

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Really fucking sad gps is going to be the first shit to go when Fighting starts getting serious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fighting this days is terrifying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That explains why MapQuest is fueling the flames of war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Kessler syndrome always behind the corner

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In a potential future conflict, high-value GPS satellites risk being hit or interfered with. If this happens, the loss of GPS could have severe consequences for communication, navigation, and banking systems in the United States.

Banking?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

accurate timekeeping? that's all I can think of for trading at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I worked in a place where the machine room had a network time device that connected to an attena getting gps reading to give time to all the other hosts. Im pretty sure any ntp server a host has configured is only a hop or two away from a device like this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And the SWIFT System.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

High frequency trading going down?

Oh noo.

Anyways...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The worry isn't that HFT stops working. It's that it causes a failure state that brings down the legitimate parts of the financial sector.

Like how we're not worried about AI pilots malfunctioning and being grounded, the same way we'd worry about AI pilots malfunctioning and bombing humans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I wish

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely nothing could go wrong...

go wrong...

go wrong...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I just watched this Simpsons episode..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do you want skynet? Because this is how we get skynet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

We just need to make sure they require manual refuelling and we'll be fine... so we're totally going to design them to refuel autonomously.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Found John Connor.

Robot dogs with AI controlled guns mounted on the back are also a thing already 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

An AI controlled jet fighter is something a step above in force, compared to the dog.

I can imagine a scenario where enough civilians could stop a rogue gundog, that gets tougher with a jet fighter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.