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Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed::Protesters at OpenAI’s office demanded the startup cease military work. But first...

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 47 points 9 months ago (14 children)

a future where innocent people are murdered by unaccountable fully autonomous flying assassin robots is pretty inevitable now, huh?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (12 children)

It always was. There are no words anyone can say to prevent it from happening. That's the unfortunate nature of arms races: if you boycott one, you lose it. With nukes, they involve things on a scale that can be detected easily, so nuclear nonproliferation has worked, to a degree anyways. But AI stuff isn't detectable like that.

And I remember seeing a video of a high school kid who made an automated paintball turret around 20 years ago. We've had remotely controlled drones for longer than that. Autonomous drones are a thing already.

The technology already exists for that black mirror episode with the killer dog robots. It's just a question of whether all of that has been put together yet (and I'd be very surprised if no one has done it), and today's are probably easier to disable.

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t China already have a killer dog prototype?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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