eheun t1_jarvhch wrote
Reply to comment by Bobtheguardian22 in Robot dogs are taking over the US military by diacewrb
Kinda badass ngl - but the ethical implications of video games with irl consequences?
The-God-Of-Memez t1_jas305e wrote
Hopefully one day advancement of military will lead to destroying the other countries toys instead of killing the people
yuxulu t1_jatzx2q wrote
Settle international disagreement with battlebots.
Alimbiquated t1_jasqznw wrote
I can imagine something like that happening on the Moon or Mars. Because these places are so hostile to human habitation, a space colony would probably have a long first phase where robots build the colony before the astronauts arrive in any numbers. If it came to war, the robots would fight it out among themselves.
Bobtheguardian22 t1_jas0561 wrote
that sounds like a problem for future us.
Xboxwun t1_jas7g2g wrote
Current us*
Bobtheguardian22 t1_jasb9wp wrote
but not right this moment us.
Sweaty-Feedback-1482 t1_jas3oaa wrote
Aren’t we already there with drone operators?
savage_slurpie t1_jasc5af wrote
Been there for more than a decade. People just don’t like to think about the ethical implications of using drones.
goliathfasa t1_jasjmhj wrote
Or as George Carlin called them: Nintendo pilots.
[deleted] t1_jbiyv9w wrote
The use of drones really hasn't changed anything from an ethics standpoint. Pilots dropping bombs from drones is ethically and practically no different than pilots dropping bombs from bombers and fighter jets. In all those scenarios, the pilot is using inputs from various types of data to make the decision to drop the bomb and is making that decision from a perspective of complete safety from enemy attack.
The real change in the calculus of ethics will happen when drones have the ability to decide whether or not to kill a human target. By "decide", I don't mean automatically running a program to determine whether or not the target fits a preprogrammed target profile (even if that target profile is determined through machine learning, even self-trained machine learning). Instead, I mean "decide" in the sense of actual generalized AI where the drone, on its own initiative, makes the conscious decision whether or not to kill a human target. We're a very long way off from that.
Duma123 t1_jasoatf wrote
No-Fly-6043 t1_jasxa5a wrote
I mean I play 5D chess with multidimensional time travel irl, and it is/was/going to be fine
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