[ExI] Five Autonomous Weapons that are already here

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:02 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> In this article, we have collected 5 examples of real-life autonomous
> weapons which exist today, and have either already been deployed in
> military operations or are being deployed in the near future.
>
> <
> https://futureoflife.org/2021/11/22/5-real-life-technologies-that-prove-autonomous-weapons-are-already-here/
> >
>
> Quotes:
> 1 – US AIR FORCE MQ-9 REAPER
> 2 – MODIFIED M600 DRONE
> 3 – STM KARGU-2
> 4 – SPUR
> 5 – JAEGER-C
>
> Should Algorithms decide who lives and who dies?
> Clearly these new technologies pose a huge moral problem – is it
> acceptable for us to delegate life-or-death decisions to an algorithm?
>

Those questions have already been decided, unfortunately. As an IT
professional, the thought of autonomous weapons terrifies me, at least at
the current state of software engineering, AI, ethics, politics, etc.

-Dave
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