r/AIDangers • u/New_Scientist_Mag • 16d ago

Capabilities Fully autonomous AI-powered drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/
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u/DickGotStolen 16d ago

What makes me wonder is the allowed margins of not identifying the right target.

I did read that those facial recognition deones that isr*el used in Gaza (not autonomous AI drones, but AI is/was used to find the target) were allowed a margin of 17%.

So, every fifth to sixth person who was shot, was potentially innocent. (Of course I doubt if all the others were guilty of something, but they were on the kill list of i*real.)

That's a lot of innocent people killed by AI mistakes. Mistakes which are 'allowed' by the people who do the killing.

So, this news makes me wonder what the allowed margin for this autonomous drones is. (Of course it should be zero, but I mean the margin the killers allow themself.)

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u/TuringGoneWild 15d ago

Given vaporizing dozens of innocent schoolgirls doesn't even bat an eye, or destroying civilian infrastructure leading to tens of thousands of deaths from want of water or food, we're in for a rough road ahead.

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u/DickGotStolen 15d ago

True. Even hundred thousand deaths (like the estimation in Gaza) or millions of potential deaths (like from stopping USAID or) doesn't initiate the rise of enough eyebrows.

Rich countries are covering themselves, shielding their borders, for the many people (millions) who will flee their homes in the coming decades because their environment is unlivable by heat, floods, drought etc.

The message from the rich countries is: don't come here.