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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by Laaas on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:16PM (#34972762)
The nation that makes the most use of this will succeed and spread the most.

AI is the new nuke.

We will likely see a rapid arms race in using AI in weaponry. If you can automate everything, wage a war without suffering human losses, you gain the ability to conquer without worry. If China develops autonomous soldier robots, autonomous warplanes, and decided to pre-emptively attack the US, what do you think would happen?

It seems to me as though the US has no choice but to develop this technology, lest they fall behind.

I'm not sure there's a realistic chance of avoiding dystopia.

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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by orcajerk on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:36PM (#34973017)
AI will be used for population control and censorship. WW1 introduced new inhumane ways to mass murder tens of millions of people. AI in WW3 will be used in the same way - to thin the herd.
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by Teever on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:30PM (#34972934)
If AI is the new nuke what does nonproliferation look like?
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by robcohen on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:40PM (#34973081)
Not an expert here, but I think one of the only reasons that nonproliferation works is because it’s generally difficult to make nukes without making it pretty obvious that you’re doing it. Even biological warfare is somewhat easy to identify. AI seems different in that it just requires intelligent people, compute power, and time.
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by Ancalagon on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:45PM (#34973144)
Nations hoarding EMPs
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by red-iron-pine on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:05PM (#34973400)
What does it look like? Neuromancer's Turing Police
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by jasonladuke0311 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:14PM (#34973506)
Let’s pre-empt that, even: assassinations of non-allied AI researchers?
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by nervousvarun on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:41PM (#34974540)
Right and how did that work out for those 3? Wintermute still found a way.
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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by V__ on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:21PM (#34973596)
The US would respond with nukes. Same scenario like today.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can help me out, but I don't see how AI would actually change anything between world powers.

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Re:US Defense Department Lets AI Pilot Take Stick of F16 Jet... by aliyfarah on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:14PM (#34974202)
The entire practicality of airborne AI weapons systems in a hostile environment is still very questionable imo. Would the US really send off a B-21 Raider with a $700mn unit price into a battlefield without a pilot? Or even a f35 at $100mn each?

These AI pilot systems haven’t even seen 1st gen countermeasures. If the Iranians managed to spoof US military’s most advanced stealth unmanned drone (at the time) [1], bring it down and reverse engineer it, that should be a wake up call on how vulnerable these systems that rely on sensors are.

The US won’t even send ancient Abrams tanks to Ukraine out of fear their secret sauce armour lands in the hands of their foes. If you can’t send your best weapons then what’s the point?

[1] https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16715072...

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