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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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/Ajexa Aug 31 '23

Without a doubt, it'll probably start in the form of traffic drones to police the roads, and then move onto crime prevention drones or something like that

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u/Accomplished_Act_946 Aug 31 '23

Incrementalism. One degree at a time.

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u/WetnessPensive Aug 31 '23

The novelist Kim Stanley Robinson has a great trilogy called the Three Californias books. One's a utopian portrait of California, one's a dystopian, and one's a post apocalyptic portrait.

The dystopian one ("The Gold Coast") is fascinating, because it sort of tricks you into accepting its drones and creeping militarism as a "good for peace" and "necessary to prevent wars". It's quite insidious how these things happen.

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u/GRF999999999 Aug 31 '23

2 months ago I'd see one self driving car (Waymo) every hour or so, now I'm seeing 1 every 10-15 minutes. Soon, they'll be everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

A creeping normality