Send in the SLAUGHTERBOTS
Anyone else bothered by the potential for other-than-intended operators seizing the reins of pilotless death machines?
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Perhaps the most nightmarish, dystopian film of 2017 didn't come from Hollywood. Autonomous weapons critics, led by a college professor, put together a horror show.
It's a seven-minute video, a collaboration between University of California-Berkeley professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute that shows a future in which palm-sized, autonomous drones use facial recognition technology and on-board explosives to commit untraceable massacres.
The film is the researchers' latest attempt to build support for a global ban on autonomous weapon systems, which kill without meaningful human control.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/tech...-ai/index.html
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http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...archid=6616517
AI goes wild: Slaughterbots
Thanks to a "lurker" a pointer to a scary YouTube clip (8 mins), which starts with a presentation and then a fictional situation - viewed since release on the 12th by 790K. Described by a SME here:
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both plausible and terrifying
The origin is shown as either Stop Autonomous Weapons or https://futureoflife.org/ hence 491k views and 288k views.
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
From another "lurker":
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rather a long way to go in terms of miniature power generation let alone ai.
Should we fear the rise of drone assassins? Two experts debate
Two academics debate slaughterbots after the recent film, which now have 1.8m and 575k views.
Link:https://theconversation.com/should-w...s-debate-87699
Out The Warhead On The Forehead!👍
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Originally Posted by
davidbfpo
Put the warhead on the forehead! This technology exist now IMO not on the horizon as the video says.
The rise of the dronopticon?
An academic article that is, well deeply pessimistic about mankind's future when automation plus makes so many surplus to requirements. The full title is: The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis.
Link:https://www.geogr-helv.net/71/19/2016/gh-71-19-2016.pdf