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‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. (theconversation.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm actually surprised it has taken this long.

What surprises me even more is that organized crime hasn't gotten on board much (yet). Like, screw drive by shootings -- drone dropped grenades on rival gangs and such.

Or that drones haven't been used for "school shooting" type mass casualty attacks.

Or that foreign countries haven't snuck in with a sea can full of drones which fan out and attack infrastructure.

Imagine a cruise missile as a drone carrier that just scatters anti-personnel drones along a flight path, each just finding a person indiscriminately.

If there's anything that Ukraine is teaching us, it's that we don't have countermeasures (yet). The autonomous versions are even scarier.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Why this soft-spoken tone?

Killer robots must be banned, period.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily. They will never be banned for this one reason alone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (16 children)

Whoever bans them will be at a disadvantage militarily.

...and exactly this way of thinking will one day create "Skynet".

We need to be (or become) smarter than that!

Otherwise mankind is doomed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing the major countries will ban them, but still develop the technology, let other countries start using it, then say "well everyone else is using it so now we have to as well". Just like we're seeing with mini drones in Ukraine. The US is officially against automated attacks, but we're supporting a country using them, and we're developing full automation for our own aircraft.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The acronym "Laws" is a little too on the nose. I'd ask whether anyone involved in the development of these has seen the documentary film Robocop, but clearly they have and thought it was a great idea.

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