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The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans (www.businessinsider.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the targets are things like that wedding in Mali sure.

I think your argument is a bit like saying depleted uranium is better than the alternative, a nuclear bomb. When the bomb was never on the table for half the stuff depleted uranium is.

Boots on the ground or heavy ordinance were never a viable option for some of the stuff drones are used for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Boots on the ground or heavy ordinance were never a viable option for some of the stuff drones are used for.

It was literally the standard policy prior to drones.