[ExI] Autonomous killer drones will soon be here

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Autonomous killer drones will soon be here

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.
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>...(And I guess that civilian forces and terrorists will also love these cheap selective kill devices).
BillK

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That technology already exists BillK.  Flying robot competitions include such subcompetitions as identifying categories of people: injured hiker, escaped convict, nude sunbather, fitness runner.  The game is to drop a first aid kit and water to the injured hiker, identify the position and direction of the escaped convict, ignore the jogger, pixelate the image of the nude sunbather.  Fortunately, they didn't actually specify the requisite size of the pixels on that sunbather, so if our drone creates an image of such resolution that we can count her eyebrow hairs, that image is still made up of pixels, and therefore meets the strict definition of "pixelate" by my reasoning.

I can easily imagine drones being used as targeting vehicles, which identify and laser-paint the target, as missiles with end-game guidance come in seeking that specific frequency of the targeting laser.  Consequence: we may soon see or perhaps have already seen our last major outdoor political rally.

spike