• @[email protected]
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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.

    • @_stranger_
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      Really has a strong “testing in production” vibe

          • @beebarfbadger
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            Don’t worry, no danger of killing real people in the Middle East. All the “collateral damage” will be brown people, not Americans. They’ll have all the kinks ironed out and will make sure that the AI doesn’t hurt white targets before the technology is distributed to every national police district.

            I wish this post even deserved a /s.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West
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        Listen, the Geneva convention only specifies what we can’t use on enemies, okay? As long as the targets are technically friendlies, it’s fair game!

        • @PapstJL4U
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          GC is for war and soldiers are combatants and not criminals by default (switching can happen easily). As an example Hollowpoint against criminals is okay as it can protect surrounding bystanders.

          It’s a bit weird, but for countries war is different from domestic problems.

    • FenrirIII
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      Today, it’s a rifle. Tomorrow, it’s a missile launcher. In a week, it’s a bomb. In a month, it’s a nuke.

      • @iAvicenna
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        92 months ago

        no in a month it becomes available to police departments for domestic use

    • @RangerJosie
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      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!

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • Flying Squid
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    Has the Army watched like… any sci-fi ever?

      • Flying Squid
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        I mean, I’d rather not be hunted down by an AI robot dog, but you do you.

        • @RangerJosie
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          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.

          • Flying Squid
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            That’s not a reason for me to want it to happen. Which was your original post’s suggestion.

            • @RangerJosie
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              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.

              • Flying Squid
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                Let them fuck around and find out to the tune of how many lives?

                • @RangerJosie
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                  Thousands at least. The more effective the killbots are the more money our war economy will throw at warbot R&D.

                  This is happening. Nothing on this planet can stop it.

      • @njm1314
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        12 months ago

        Yeah, Humanity has had a good run, let’s wrap this shit up.

      • @Bonesince1997
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        12 months ago

        Someone is bound to be dropping out of the sky to help us any minute now…

        • @RangerJosie
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          32 months ago

          I really wish aliens would invade. I’d side with them against our various oligarchies.

    • @SmilingSolaris
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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.

  • @SGGeorwell
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    A civilization that uses these weapons isn’t worth defending.

    • @pigup
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      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.

  • @Warjac
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    What Boston Dynamics lied?!? Wow, totally unexpected.

      • @BigPotato
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        Roston Bynamics was found to actually be Boston Dynamics with some 100mph tape slapped over the logo.

      • @Warjac
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        I dunno, I’m subscribed to the BD YouTube channel and the very sudden change in facilities and upgrades to bots seems to be a little too in line with this. Like someone definitely caved in my opinion.

  • @njm1314
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    Armed AI robots in the Middle East, I’m pretty sure this was in the animatrix

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • @iAvicenna
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    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

  • @Allonzee
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    “herp derp AI will never turn on us, we can just unplug them lol”

  • @TommySoda
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.”