PGC – Militaries around the world are wrestling with relying on artificially intelligence powered autonomous machines, be they robots or drones, or even robot drones, to determine the appropriate time to apply lethal force and the time to show restraint.
In our reality of power, framed as it is around coercive-based nation-state models of organizing, the countries themselves not only must consider the ramifications of autonomous non-human killers for their population at large, but what their decision will mean as far as meeting the threat of competing nation states.
The very model at large of nation-statism compels these entities to need to seek the more lethal-producing patterns over the more citizen-autonomoy-patterns for fear that their competitors will be more effective at killing than theirs, and thus leave them vulnerable to absortion by those around them.
It’s a nation eat nation world out there folks, and against this backdrop what we mostly have are the nations that are able, and more and more can, to develop inhouse models of effective non-human autonomous killing platform are compelled to do so, for if they fail to do so, no matter the risk, or the backlash from the people they allegedly serve, they are almost sure to lose to the nation-states around them if they fail to act now.
This writer has little doubt that the United States form of people that do such things is busy building more and more effective autonomous killers to be run by ai deep learners that are more and more efficent at producing the desired desults of the humans that began them. This writer also has little doubt that the ability to create such tools is already available for the motivated poorest of nation-states, even for a small group of people who want to build up their defenses among themselves.
A world of the future could involve printing ai-fortified-to-autonomous guardians of very types who constantly sweep the skies, the seas, the forests, the boundaries, looking for threats. The world could be peppered with hundreds of thousands of city-states, all more or less equally capable of sending out drone hordes to make conquest prohibitively expensive
This could be a world where small scale vanquishes the large scale for a significant season of human history to come, though eventually the large scale will come roaring back, leaving this age to come a golden age for the ages to come after that.
Meet the ‘killer robots’ of modern warfare from AI-powered suicide drones to
From www.the-sun.com
2021-08-10 06:44:00
Excerpt:
It might sound like the stuff of science fiction but killer robots, sometimes called “slaughterbots”, are already a reality.
Last year, STM Kargu-2 drones hunted down targets in what might be the first instance of artificial intelligence killing on its own initiative.
The revelation came after years of experts warning about the dangers of letting machines decide who lives and dies in combat.
Now a UN conference on so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva to create new international regulations to stop killer robots being allowed to make their own decisions.
The Russian delegate argued no new rules are needed, but others disagree, saying machines shouldn’t be given the power to choose targets themselves.
“Humans must apply the rules of international humanitarian law in carrying out attacks so weapons that function in this way complicate that,” Dr Neil Davison of the International Committee of the Red Cross told BBC Radio’s Today programme.
“Our view is that an algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies.”
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