This Machine Kills
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353. Slaughterbots, Roll Out!
🕑 Added 2024-07-15 04:30:59 +0000 UTCWe refocus on the war in Ukraine and the country’s pivot toward being the “Silicon Valley for autonomous drones and other weaponry.” Thanks to a combination of foreign investment, entrepreneurial governance, DIY scrappiness, and a ‘by any means necessary’ attitude, the future of cheap, lethal, autonomous warfare is being forged and tested in Ukrainian war zones — before inevitably being deployed everywhere else in some form.
A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/technology/ukraine-war-ai-weapons.html
Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)
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Ijon Tichy
I always liked Robert Elliott Smith's line in _Rage Inside The Machine_ about an autonomous drone on what amounted to overwatch mode: "That's not an artificial intelligence; that's just a land mine".
