Originally posted at TomDispatch. Yes, it’s true. After 20 years of war – actually, more like 30 years if you count American involvement in the Russian - Rebecca Gordon for Antiwar.com Original
Here’s a scenario to consider: a military force has purchased a million cheap, disposable flying drones each the size of a deck of cards, each capable of carrying three grams of explosives enough to kill a single person or, in a “shaped charge,” pierce a steel wall. They’ve been programmed to seek.
Legal Autonomous Weapons that use A.I. to kill targets with no human intervention are being regulated, but military-powered countries are refusing -the U.N. will have to intervene.