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Comment by flangola7 | Hacker News Reader

Less like a BLU-109 and more like a Death Star. Every offensive and defensive military tool will be utterly defeated. How do you fight against a cloud of self contained autonomous kill drones?

Just look at what is happening in Ukraine with cheap drones precision dropping charges into open tank hatches and foxholes, and those are only basic off the shelf human steered drones! What happens when they are given a brain and advanced robotic abilities?

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You have your drones. You also have your own personal chatbot that tells you when to ignore instructions from super-persuader AIs that would get you to kill yourself , spend all your money, or fall madly in love with an LLM if you didn't have a personal chatbot to protect you from their persuasive capabilities.

What if your personal chatbot was subverted by the super-persuader, or was controlled by it from the beginning? Impossible to be sure.

We're going to have to stop talking to machines.

> We're going to have to stop talking to machines.

Unfortunately that's going to limit us to talking to people physically in front of us. Society is going to be ugly soon.

Your personal chatbot to protect you will at first be a luxury and then be more of a commodity. It will run on your own machine. Right now you can run the big Facebook llama model on a single machine if you buy a $15,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM. Churches, political parties and other moral associations will fine tune these chatbots based on their values.

Nets, emp guns and chaff rifles

If cheap drones dropping charges was enough to win the war then why does Ukraine need other weapons?

The current drones are limited in capability: can't reliably hit moving targets or assault infantry indoors, to start.

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