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[–] AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Do you want skynet? Because this is how we get skynet.

[–] krimson@feddit.nl 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Found John Connor.

Robot dogs with AI controlled guns mounted on the back are also a thing already πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

An AI controlled jet fighter is something a step above in force, compared to the dog.

I can imagine a scenario where enough civilians could stop a rogue gundog, that gets tougher with a jet fighter

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

Skynet sounds friendly. It needs a friendly looking logo.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

We just need to make sure they require manual refuelling and we'll be fine... so we're totally going to design them to refuel autonomously.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In a potential future conflict, high-value GPS satellites risk being hit or interfered with. If this happens, the loss of GPS could have severe consequences for communication, navigation, and banking systems in the United States.

Banking?

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

accurate timekeeping? that's all I can think of for trading at least.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

High frequency trading going down?

Oh noo.

Anyways...

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I wish

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

The worry isn't that HFT stops working. It's that it causes a failure state that brings down the legitimate parts of the financial sector.

Like how we're not worried about AI pilots malfunctioning and being grounded, the same way we'd worry about AI pilots malfunctioning and bombing humans.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

And the SWIFT System.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

I worked in a place where the machine room had a network time device that connected to an attena getting gps reading to give time to all the other hosts. Im pretty sure any ntp server a host has configured is only a hop or two away from a device like this.

[–] mansfield@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

[–] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Once these get advanced enough and the human cost of starting a conflict goes to zero (because they most likely will be able to scale these to whatever kind of conflict is wanted) why wouldn't countries be more likely to start a war.

Or if most regular military battles only become an economic problem then why wouldn't an enemy turn towards more terrorist like attacks like happened in Russia with ISIS.

~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not the archers. My scouts tell me their archers are miles away and no threat to us. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. Their dead cost nothing.

any british since William the Conqueror

We are always cheaper

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

TOS - S01E03 - ”A Taste of Armageddon”

"Death, destruction, disease, horror. That's what war is all about, Anan. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided."

  • -Β Kirk
[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

From 2017 https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/paul-selva-gary-peters-autonomous-weapons-killer-robots/index.html

America’s second-highest ranking military officer, Gen. Paul Selva, advocated Tuesday for β€œkeeping the ethical rules of war in place lest we unleash on humanity a set of robots that we don’t know how to control.”

[–] Cerbero@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

That’s basically the premise of horizon zero dawn.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Really fucking sad gps is going to be the first shit to go when Fighting starts getting serious.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago

Kessler syndrome always behind the corner

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That explains why MapQuest is fueling the flames of war.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Fighting this days is terrifying

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surely nothing could go wrong...

go wrong...

go wrong...

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I just watched this Simpsons episode..

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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