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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by ericmcer on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:11PM (#37325370)
This seems better to me than sending an entire generation of young men to die miles away from home. I imagine if a nations automated robot army gets decimated by another robot army they will surrender immediately rather than send their citizens in to get massacred.

Any nation with the capacity to build a robot army will also be socially mature enough to not want to commit robotic genocide against their surrendering foe. Although the current economic/resource subjugation that is done militarily might become more pronounced.

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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by temp84858696945 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:42PM (#37325907)
The far more likely future in my mind is countries using robots to automatically defend their borders from illegal immigrants/climate migrants.

When we have Texas already employing floating buzzsaws on their border it seems like if the technology is created it will inevitably be used.

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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by dTal on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:32PM (#37325741)
>Any nation with the capacity to build a robot army will also be socially mature enough to not want to commit robotic genocide against their surrendering foe

Prediction: this will age badly.

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