It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones
Ukraine also reportedly has (or at least had) a plan to shutter Moscow’s airports, cutting the capital off from the rest of the world, by unleashing swarms of around 1,000 autonomous drones equipped with artificial intelligence guidance systems each night. These drones would apparently use so-called “map matching,” in which the drone’s AI would compare uploaded aerial maps with what its onboard camera views; when it sees something resembling the image of the target, it streaks toward it and explodes. You can imagine the many mistakes that could be made — not to mention the potential risk to passengers, airport staff, flight crews, and others, even if the AI works seamlessly.
Actually, for those of you in favor of seeing the end of Fossil Fuel burning and the Age of Oil, Autonmous AI Drones are the greatest thing to hit Warfare since the Trebuchet. Already considering Swarms of 1000, wait till they run them off the production line like Iphones! Armies used to have 100K grunts out doing battle, I can easily see the Chinese deploying 1M Drones to take out every Refinery and Power Plant in the FSoA. How long do you think it will take Foxconn to retool their factories?
Just look at the havoc so far with just the Iran & Ukraine battles ongoing, and this is early days! The technology is still in its infancy! A couple more years these drones will be fully autonomus and they'll be able to travel underwater and on land as well as fly hypersonic speeds, with long distance drones that can circumnavigate the globe. Space X Rockets will be able to put thousand into low earth orbit where they can drop down at any time to hit a target.
Grunts are virtually Obsolete, along with the Ships, Planes, Tanks, Artillery and even fucking Rifles! Warfare is now just about destroying the infrastructure of an industrial economy, not directly klling people. That comes later when they start starving or dying of thirst when the water stops being pumped.
How long before we get the first Drones hitting targets inside the FSoA? I give it 5 years tops.
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