[ExI] Autonomous killer drones will soon be here

[BillK]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 at 21:20, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Now of course AI is going to be used for defense.  I will make the case, later today perhaps but more likely in the next few days, that we can imagine a case where AI will guide weapons to destroy other weapons.
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> spike
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The Ukraine and Russian techies are developing drone warfare at a
fantastic pace.
Every enhancement becomes obsolete within three months.
They want drones to have the intelligence to select and destroy their
targets autonomously..
It won't take long for this to be achieved.

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/ukraine-russia-autonomous-drones-ai>
Quotes:
Killing machines: how Russia and Ukraine’s race to perfect deadly
pilotless drones could harm us all.
Cheap, scaleable and highly autonomous, these weapons are developing
quickly – and experts say they should prompt a global rethink about
security.
Daniel Boffey in Kyiv     Wed 25 Jun 2025

The targets are not merely tanks, planes, railway hubs and critical
infrastructure. The top priority is to kill people.

“There will be cheaper autonomous systems which can target infantry at
a smaller scale because this is a key target, because the doctrine of
war has changed, heavy equipment is used less and less,” Fedorov says.
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(And I guess that civilian forces and terrorists will also love these cheap
selective kill devices).
BillK