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US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years::The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China's growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech ...

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Curiously, the high turnover rate of drone operators in the US armed forces is one of those demonstrations of how violent games don't desensitize us to violence, because drone warfare is just as good at giving our soldiers PTSD as front line infantry combat.

So it's going to be interesting when a pilot's loyal wingman starts taking out human targets without any confirmation by him or by a fellow human operator. I'm pretty sure if I were a pilot, and my autonomous drone buddies started firebombing villages on my own, it might fuck my head up a bit.

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