[ExI] AI controlled weapons now being used in Ukraine

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Terminators: AI-driven robot war machines on the march
Science fiction? Battle bots already used in Ukraine.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols   Fri 12 Sep 2025

<https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/terminators_aidriven_robot_war_machines/>
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So Ukraine has been working hard on the next logical step of drone
warfare: AI-driven drones.
Israel has also been pushing forward with a variety of AI-driven war
machines such as the Harpy and Harop, loitering munitions; and the
six-wheeled RoBattle. The US has also been retrofitting its MQ-9
Reaper and XQ-58 Valkyrie drones with AI, while the experimental
Longshot comes with AI built-in.
These systems are under human control. We set their missions, we tell
them what their parameters are. But they won't stay that way. Just
like everything else AI, we want the AI to do the work, while we just
give the chatbot general goals. We don't want to worry about the
details. That's a mistake, whether you're just trying to vibe your way
to being a 10x programmer or get a robot to shoot an enemy.

I wish this were still science fiction. I want to believe that, like
Matthew Broderick in War Games, we could convince AI not to automate
its human parents' worst impulses. Instead, I'm sure we'll soon see AI
drones and armed robots killing innocents. After all, we do.
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That's the problem with training AI on human knowledge and history.
The AI will include the best and the worst of humanity.
Humanity doesn't want AI that behaves like angels - they want AI that
follows orders, regardless of the consequences.

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