> this is something which is so obviously bad
You’d prefer we be shooting down people instead of robots downing robots? Insurgents don’t field fighters.
You’d prefer we be shooting down people instead of robots downing robots? Insurgents don’t field fighters.
For a given amount of shooting, the number of civilian casualties is not necessarily constant. It's possible that AI may be more prone to targeting civilians or makes it easier to get away politically with killing civilians.
Not all shooting is equally effective. It's possible that AI weapons may give some faction the ability to crush anyone who opposes them.
We already have this with ranged weaponry and autocrats indifferent to the liquidation of fresh troops.
> the number of civilian casualties is not necessarily constant
Civilians aren’t dogfighting. I’m with you for ground-based robots, or anti-personnel drones.
For a non-peer adversary, our bombers are already invincible. For peer adversaries, the threat model is similar to missiles.
AI bombers are not cruise missiles. They must avoid or deal with radars, flak, SAMs, and fighters.
The life of a 21st century bomber is closer to playing several games of chess at once than it is to playing at bein a cruise missile.
Technically no, since a bomber isn’t intended to be expendable. But functionally yes.
More seriously tho, here is a positive I can come up with: Race to the bottom on bots and AI, lots and lots of bots and AI, lots and lots of upgrades and updates all the time, and then a MAD stalemate situation again because it becomes it's too difficult to assess the capabilities of the other countries AIs. If that bought us years of peace because everyone was to scare to fight, I'm ok-ish with that (although I doubt it's what will happen).
At the expense of the personal (human) freedom.
Ironically, all this does is guarantee a greater willingness to reach for the violent solution.
Reminds me of an old sci-fi story where the U.S. and U.S.S.R. both create self-replicating autonomous machine armies and flee underground to let the machines duke it out.
The machines eventually realize fighting each other is pointless, and both start just making sure the humans don't surface until they are capable of living without being crazy asshats. Wish I could remember the title.