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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by betolink on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:37PM (#16761334)
Is having killing machines with no human in the loop a good idea? because that's the way this is going. We don't need Skynet to have a dystopian future.
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by ghostcluster on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:35PM (#16761554)
Is it ok to not have them and allow an adversary who does develop them to overwhelm your nation's outdated defenses and less efficient tactics, as Germany did with its tank blitzkriegs and diversion around the Maginot line?
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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by fabianhjr on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:05AM (#16761679)
The problem emerges when an actor most become a monster to win, sort of like Mutually Assured Destruction. I think that scifi shorts have the duty and power to show us the paths that certain developments entail. For example:

- Slaughterbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw

- Last Day of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJmTeBSEzU

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