[ExI] robo-rescue

[spike at rainier66.com]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>... Reliable sources are reporting the first fully-autonomous military sea 
> rescue.  This one was a coupla US airmen downed in a helicopter.  ...
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...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] robo-rescue

>...Military fully-autonomous vehicles save lives prior to (potentially) taking any?  It's a promising anecdote for post-Singularity AI alignment.




They aren't saying if the thing was armed.  A possibly AI-generated view of it on Cmdr Salamander didn't show any obvious guns or indications it was a submersible, but I suppose that kind of info will leak out soon enough.

We had plenty of hints.  For the past several years, DARPA has been contributing to competitions such as SUAS which have autonomous drones going out and doing missions, where it doesn't rely on communication links to finish its task.

https://suas-competition.org/competitions/

There's also fun stuff: fully autonomous car races, desert buggies, bike races and so on.  While I am most annoyed that the United Arab Emirates have taken the lead, you know it's wicked cool:

https://a2rl.io/

Adrian you and I are two lucky fellers to be alive to watch this unfold.

spike