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Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by nradov on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:05PM (#47102545)
The DoD was pursuing autonomous AI weapons decades ago, and succeeded as of 1979 with the Mk 60 Captor Mine.

https://www.vp4association.com/aircraft-information-2/32-2/m...

The worries over Skynet and other sci-fi apocalypse scenarios are so silly.

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Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by deepsquirrelnet on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:22PM (#47102725)
Self awareness is silly, but the capacity for a powerful minority to oppress a sizeable population without recruiting human soldiers might not be that far off.
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Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" by nradov on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:00PM (#47108015)
The more automation a weapons system has, the more human technicians are needed to keep it working.
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