This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.
That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
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Elilol@fedinsfw.app · 14 pts · 113d
skarn@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 112d
It's not that we didn't listen... It's that there's just too many people that see every warning as a suggestion.
greenskye@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 112d
Sometimes I wonder if those smart, imaginative people had just simply kept their horrifying hypotheticals to themselves, would those dumb enough to try to make one have actually thought of the idea?
And then I wonder how many smart, imaginative people have done exactly that with even worse ideas that I just don't know about.
Elilol@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 112d
etherphon@piefed.world · 13 pts · 113d
Teknikal@anarchist.nexus · 10 pts · 112d
In one of Tropico games you could unlock a certain tech and you would always have one killer drone hunting and killing whatever citizen your approval was lowest with...
Yeah it'll probably happen
30p87@feddit.org · 4 pts · 112d
It never was, if you ignore the robot part.
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 112d
Even the robot part, what were drone strikes if not robots.
They'll just look crappier and kill more random people.
HotDog7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 112d
What's up with DAWG?
tio_bira@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
Well, that sucks, i don't have force fields or have been special trained like Paul
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 111d
We'll all just stand very still in the dark and hope a maid walks in first I guess.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 111d
Trump, republicans, bla bla...
What's worse than the drone assassinations from any of the USSA's 2 scummy mass murdering parties?
Riverside@reddthat.com · -3 pts · 111d