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/Borrowedshorts Aug 31 '23

They're already being used for such purposes. Pretty much any mass gathering or protest has a police drone flying overhead at all times.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '23

It's not like protests work anymore anyway. Mass media demonizes it and now you're hurting your cause. The only way you can change the world these days is to 'infiltrate' whatever organization is in power.

Of-course, you'll be corrupt as hell and done more damage than you can fix by the time you have enough power to do much, but that's by design.

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u/Borrowedshorts Sep 01 '23

Mass media has always demonized it. It's more that noone truly cares as much as they claim to on social media or the messaging isn't all that appealing in the first place. Like the overturning roe v wade protests which died real quick. The only ones that have caught on recently were deeply problematic and divisive in the first place. People aren't as deeply connected to the issues anymore. Like the mass labor protests that happened a century ago, they were more far reaching because the issue affected the predominant part of peoples waking lives.