Automated Warfare Is Nothing New
It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.
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It didn’t just start with drones—and it won’t stop with them.
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...
Once launched, lethal autonomous weapons systems will fly and kill without any further human action.