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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

that someone who owns the AI/Drones will use it to kill us.

Or that they'll just be lazy and sloppy.

In movies you used to sometimes see someone put a brick on a car's gas pedal so they could send it through a wall, or into a lake, or whatever. In a comedy, you sometimes used to see someone rig up something so that their car could drive while they slept.

Running AI "agents" is basically like opening up some application that has a lot of keyboard shortcuts to run various scripts and then putting a brick on the keyboard.

Unfortunately, we're now at a stage where some people think that's a good idea. The machines aren't capable of thought, they have no desires or goals. But, if some of those scripts instruct a drone to go out and kill someone, the brick on the keyboard can get someone killed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    The machines aren’t capable of thought

    They aren't, but they do a damn good job at reading inputs, following a document of instructions, and using control output.

    Setting a waypoint, retrieving imagery, using machine vision to identify a human is an easily wrote task.

    Having Claude code write an app to run on a pc to do all that is trivial.

    The other stuff is just something the military already does redily

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