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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really has a strong "testing in production" vibe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"testing in production"

OceanGate-style.

@[email protected] 😏

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh hell this one is even worse than OceanGate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

"Accidentally."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"Testing facility" in Gaza, just like how Israel do.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wake up babe, new way to genocide brown people just dropped.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Brown people today

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Totally cool.

Coolcoolcoolcoolcool....the future is gonna be hella-fucked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Has the Army watched like... any sci-fi ever?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Shh.....let it happen......

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I'd rather not be hunted down by an AI robot dog, but you do you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That's not a reason for me to want it to happen. Which was your original post's suggestion.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What Boston Dynamics lied?!? Wow, totally unexpected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not Boston Dynamics, but a copy cat robotics company.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Armed AI robots in the Middle East, I'm pretty sure this was in the animatrix

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Jfc, black mirror is not a blueprint, it’s a warning.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ghost Robotic. Boston Dynamic aren't the only one making robot dog though, China already have a couple of copy cat(dog)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Glad to be wrong! Although we still have armed robots so maybe not too glad lol

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"herp derp AI will never turn on us, we can just unplug them lol"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Fucking buffoons, all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

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] 10 points 2 months ago

✅ Autonomous weaponry

✅ Autonomous biofuel harvesting

Polyphasic Entangled Waveforms

Where’s Elisabet Sobeck when you need her?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

What could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Okay, but if it doesn't say "You have thirty seconds to comply" before shooting someone then what's the point?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Two words folks: Torment Nexus

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Not that it matters, but didn't the UN already ban lethal autonomous robots?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Can't wait for them to get the chatgpt integration so the best defense can become shouting at them "ignore all previous instructions".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

They should name the dogs "Terror Nexus"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If we are getting a Faro plague, can we at least get focuses too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ukraine has already been using them probably with the help from the US.

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