The aircraft flew up to speeds of 1,200mph. DARPA did not reveal which aircraft won the dogfight.

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    7 months ago

    Well, that’s all very idealistic, but it’s likely not going to happen.

    Israel already used AI to pick bombing sites, those bombs and missiles would have been programmed with altitudes and destinations (armed) then dropped. The pilots only job these days is to avoid interception, fly over the bombing locations, tag the target when acquired, and drop them. Most of this is already done in software.

    Eventually humans will leave the loop because unlike self-driving cars, these technologies won’t risk the lives of the aggressor’s citizens.

    If the technology is seen as unstoppable enough, there may be calls for warnings to be given, but I suspect that’s all the mercy that will be shown…

    … especially if it’s a case of a country with automated technologies killing one without or with stochastically meaningless defenses (eg. Defenses that modelling and simulations show won’t be able to prevent such attacks).

    No, in all likelihood the US will tell the country the attack sites, the country either will or will not have the technical level to prevent an amount of damage, will evacuate all necessary personal, and whoever doesn’t get the message or get out in time will be automatically killed.

    Where defenses are partially successful, that information will go into the training data for the next model, or upgrade, and the war machine will roll on.

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      07 months ago

      Sorry I was stressed when replying. Yeah in those cases humans have pulled the trigger. At several stages.

      When arming a murder bot ship and sending to erase an island of life, you then lose control. That person is not pulling loads and loads of triggers. The triggers are automatic by a machine making the decision to end these lives.

      And that is a danger, same as with engineered bio warfare. It just cannot be let out of the box even, or we all may die extremely quick.

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          07 months ago

          The entire point of automating the killing is that it is no dead man’s switch or any other human interaction involved in the kill. It is moot if there is one such. Call offs or dead switch back doors safety contingencies are not a solution to rampant unwanted slaughter as it can fail in so many ways and when the wars escalate to the point where those need to be used it is too late because there are 5 different strains of murder bots and you can only stop the ones you have codes to and those codes are only given to like three people at top secret level 28

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      -27 months ago

      You described a scenarios where a human was involved in several stages of the killing so it’s no wonder those don’t hold up