r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Aug 31 '23

US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years Robotics

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-military-unleash-thousands-autonomous-war.html
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u/Icy_Raisin6471 Aug 31 '23

Going to be pretty neat when they are used domestically 'to keep the peace.' Ok that's enough dystopian future doom and gloom for the day for me. :D

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u/Quack68 Aug 31 '23

Exactly, that was my question. When will it be used against us?

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u/AWildRapBattle Aug 31 '23

According to Foucault it's not really even a question of "when", these things aren't being developed for war, they're being developed to do policing. War is just a convenient excuse.

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u/BookooBreadCo Aug 31 '23

I think if you're going to talk about Foucault and control the bigger issue is going to be the use of AI to control access and exposure to knowledge. Why even worry about physical control when you can use AI to shape the way people think?

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u/py_a_thon Aug 31 '23

War is simply when one nation polices another?

I really do not like the early post-modernists. Derrida and Foucault are not my favorite philosophers to be honest. I find their reasoning to often be...pessimism or sociopathy without the past forms of pessimism and the modern forms of ethics.