Re:Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for th...
by ermir on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:35AM
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By "softwareization" I mean the transfer of the difficulty of making weapons from software to hardware. Programmers and programming knowledge is far more widely available that specialized hardware or techniques. We've already seen this process in many fields of business with great success, so it's no wonder that it would come to warfare as well.
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Re:Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for th...
by bb88 on Monday May 31, 2021 @01:55PM
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And I don't see how that changes anything. I just see this as a distinction without a difference.
People have written software to target buildings, soldiers, tanks, planes, missiles, etc. This is done via radar, heat signatures, cameras -- and software already. It's not such a big change really.
I believe the thing you really have to worry about is the proliferation of NBC. It's easier to drop a nerve agent in a war zone than it is to figure out how to make an explody drone to kill your enemies and not you, say.