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September 28
28 | 28.9.2012 | 7 months ago |

A Northrop Grumman design of the future drone bomber: It’s an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs).   Say that word again:  autonomous.   That’s the breakthrough feature.  This also means: It can make its own “kill decision.”  Again and again and again.  That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore’s law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next). It isn’t vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops. It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the “Queen,” making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka “city”).    In sum:  It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence.    (via The Future of Warfare - Global Guerrillas)

A Northrop Grumman design of the future drone bomber:

It’s an autonomous aircraft/drone that has a full weapons bay (4,500 lbs).   Say that word again:  autonomous.   That’s the breakthrough feature.  This also means:

It can make its own “kill decision.”  Again and again and again.  That decision is going to get better and better and cheaper and cheaper (Moore’s law has made insect level intelligence available for pennies, rat intelligence is next).

It isn’t vulnerabe to a pilot in Nevada directing it to land in Iran. Oops.

It will eventually (sooner than you think) be the “Queen,” making decisions for thousands of smaller swarmed (semi-autonomous) drones it lays on a battle zone (aka “city”).   

In sum:  It allows an unprecedented automation of conventional violence.   

(via The Future of Warfare - Global Guerrillas)

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    be frightened, very frightened.
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    Huge ethical question.. I never even thought about this til I was in France this summer talking politics— if we all just...
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    um…no. Just no.
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    seeing lots of bomb drones, not enough drones for shooting down bomb drones, untapped markets and opportunities
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    Prepare to be all watched over by machines of loving grace.
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    Skynet?
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