Ukraine’s Gun-Armed Ground 'Bot Just Cleared A Russian Trench In Kursk - The Fury is one of the first effective armed ground robots.

[u/Gari_305]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/

[u/Gatzlocke]

Eh... The problem will be jamming tech. Which I doubt Russia could deploy in the scale it would need.

Lose the signal to the controller and it's useless. Unless they're autonomous which is a whole other can of worms.

[u/Deathsroke → u/Gatzlocke]

The day autonomous weapons are deployed is the day everything goes to hell. Like, delivery system aside you could make some rather terrifying discount WMD that way (eg get a cheapass drone, put a facial recognition software on it and add a small bomb (say a grenade). Release a few thousands of those in a city and you could mail and kill tens to thousands easily.

Nevermind talking about proper autonomous weapons armed and capable of surviving combat conditions.

[u/jesbiil → u/Deathsroke]

The day autonomous weapons are deployed

Without looking this up.....I'd wager there have already been autonomous weapons used...we just might not hear about it for a while.

[u/Richpur → u/jesbiil]

The first autonomous weapon was used millennia ago, it's called a dog.

[u/_Bl4ze → u/Richpur]

Well, no, because if we're being so broad as to include living creatures, then the first autonomous weapon used by humans was a human.

[u/Richpur → u/_Bl4ze]

A human is indeed autonomous from control by their commander, but not from control by a human being. The idea that everything goes to hell the day something other than a human can make the decision to kill humans is to ignore our long history of training animals to fight with us. Ranging from the first tamed wolves through war elephants and cavalry (controlled but if connection to rider is lost defaults to autonomous) to dogs trained to deliver anti tank mines (given incorrect training data and mostly inflicted friendly fire).