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21:15
AI powered military drones... what could possibly go wrong?
@FireQuacker a demonstration that ends with a drone killing the general they are showing the tech...
no, that would be something going very well
Seems like there's been a ton of sci-fi stories about this topic to explain why it's such a dumb idea
sci-fi is full of ideas that are clearly dumb and governments are doing them all the time...
"Don't Create the Torment Nexus"
if some human does something wrong, it's possible to prosecute and penalize said human... if a swarm of drones did something wrong, who will you prosecute?
it's the same as the outrageous programming errors that go unpunished because "there's no way to know this piece of code would fail this way"
easy example: how many tech vendors got punished by using a hard-coded password that leaked? how many "vendor-supplied backdoor" leaked?
it's the same with autopilot: if the autopilot kills someone, the vendor won't be responsible (it wasn't us driving) and the car owner will say the same
21:30
Need to reconsider the laws, but I doubt that would be popular
 
2 hours later…
23:55
unless there are massive, overwhelming popular movement to change a law, lobbies are the ones defining them
and the defense industry is one of the most powerful lobbies... so I doubt laws will change to penalize them when things go wrong

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