The Pentagon Is Accelerating AI and Autonomous Technology America’s military leaders are racing to deploy thousands of autonomous weapons and an AI-powered air monitoring system for Washington D.C.

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    10 months ago

    I’m not going to get into a “no real Scottsman” arugement about the advancements in this field

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      10 months ago

      Good lord. You’re talking about programs being smart enough to disable their own killswitch. That’s not a fucking thing.

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        10 months ago

        Worse. They are taking about a program that has some sort of motivation or desires to disable the kill switch. It is quite silly yet. Worst case is a program bug that somehow disables. That would be highly unlikely. Particularly in such a way it would be dangerous.

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        10 months ago

        I wonder what would go down if a CWIS managed to go rogue. Like I know it’s literally impossible, but if it was what would it do? Would a Phalanx just fire 20mm at random? It’s an interesting hypothetical imo. Obv I agree with you that current tech is most def not even close to smart enough to disable their own programming

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        10 months ago

        I’m assuming that op was asking about something like this I had read about it before the air force denied it and I imagine most people who have seen that haven’t seen the denial. They were also asking about what the military is “looking to build” I was trying to meet the op where they were and you came in with a pointless “akshully!”