SlaughterBots

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"Cheap, lightweight killer robots are just around the corner — and major military powers, including the US, are doing very little to stop them.

In an interview with TheNextWeb, MIT artificial intelligence and weapons researcher Max Tegmark warned that the kind of “slaughterbots” that militaries are already working hard on may soon be in the hands of civilians as well.

“They’ll be small, cheap and light like smartphones, and incredibly versatile and powerful,” he told the site. “It’s clearly not in the national security interest of these countries to legalize super-powerful weapons of mass destruction.”

https://futurism.com/mit-professor-warns-cartels-could-use-slaughterbots

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[TheRealNorth]

1. The 1% will turn them on the massess

When they no longer need the workers.

[JanMichael]

2. The professor is scared of cartels using them. I am afraid of the owners of Amazon and Tesla...

...and other too rich to shit jerkoffs using them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Well, if Amazon were to use them against porch pirates, ...

... uh, wait, no, still a bad idea. But ...

[Baked Potato]

3. Creates a market for self defense jammers. Nt

[sl8]

4. Slaughterbots (2017 video)

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Stop Autonomous Weapons
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If this isn't what you want, please take action at http://autonomousweapons.org/

[Celerity]

10. yes, I have posted that one a lot, it is far better IMHO

[crickets]

5. RoboCop is on the way. Yikes. nt

[canetoad]

6. What does the constitution say

About the right to command a legion of slaughterbots?

[Calista241]

7. This has been coming for years.

Hell, the movie Aliens, made in 1986, had a scene with robots wielding machine guns holding a strong point. And that was deployable technology even back then. We've been flying drones over the middle east from office buildings in Arizona for 15 years.

Marines driving small remote controlled tracked vehicles that are heavily armed from a safe, protected position is good for casualty rates. It's also cheaper and less risky than putting 10 dudes out there in 3 different armored vehicles.

[denbot]

8. Great, can't wait to be murdered by a neighbor's mechanical mouse..

A low whirling noise and the light thumping of rubber tipped "legs" on the tile, one shot in the dark and it takes a preprogramed path home or even to a hidden area to bury itself.

Isn't technology wonderful.

[milestogo]

9. And they will put them in autos

so if you drive too slowly or accidentally cut someone off, they can kill you instead of flipping you the bird.

[tenderfoot]

11. What a disgusting waste of technology

If anything it says a lot about the people that are creating this shit.