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fossilesque@mander.xyz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East

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Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Rifles in Middle East

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The Army was testing at least one armed quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle at an installation in Saudi Arabia.
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  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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      Really has a strong “testing in production” vibe

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        “testing in production”

        OceanGate-style.

        @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 😏

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Oh hell this one is even worse than OceanGate

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            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.

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      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.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        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!

        • PapstJL4U@lemmy.world
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          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.

          • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Is that not what I said but less tongue-in-cheek?

        • Dainterhawk999@lemmy.world
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          /s funnily stats that is actually true

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      “Accidentally.”

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      “Testing facility” in Gaza, just like how Israel do.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Wake up babe, new way to genocide brown people just dropped.

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      Brown people today

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      Today, it’s a rifle. Tomorrow, it’s a missile launcher. In a week, it’s a bomb. In a month, it’s a nuke.

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        no in a month it becomes available to police departments for domestic use

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    Totally cool.

    Coolcoolcoolcoolcool…the future is gonna be hella-fucked.

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      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!

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      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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        I see your point but I’d take getting shot any day over beaten to death with a rock.

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          I mean the point is: let’s not. War bad, mkay?

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

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      Shh…let it happen…

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

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          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.

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

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              My first post was about letting the army fuck around and find out. Let the natural course of events remind them of those scifi movies they forgot about.

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                They’re the ones fucking around, we’ll be the ones finding out

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                Let them fuck around and find out to the tune of how many lives?

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                  Thousands at least. The more effective the killbots are the more money our war economy will throw at warbot R&D.

                  This is happening. Nothing on this planet can stop it.

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        Someone is bound to be dropping out of the sky to help us any minute now…

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          I really wish aliens would invade. I’d side with them against our various oligarchies.

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        Yeah, Humanity has had a good run, let’s wrap this shit up.

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      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.

      • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        The Torment Nexus.

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

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      Not Boston Dynamics, but a copy cat robotics company.

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        Roston Bynamics was found to actually be Boston Dynamics with some 100mph tape slapped over the logo.

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        I dunno, I’m subscribed to the BD YouTube channel and the very sudden change in facilities and upgrades to bots seems to be a little too in line with this. Like someone definitely caved in my opinion.

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

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      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.

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

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    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

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

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    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.

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

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

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      Alternative facts

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

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    Fucking buffoons, all.

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    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.

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    ✅ Autonomous weaponry

    ✅ Autonomous biofuel harvesting

    ❓ Polyphasic Entangled Waveforms

    Where’s Elisabet Sobeck when you need her?

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    Two words folks: Torment Nexus

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