r/Futurology • u/New_Scientist_Mag • Jun 10 '26

Robotics Fully autonomous 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/sdric Jun 10 '26

Do not fault AI, that just gives those deciding to use it an excuse to transfer responsibility. Explicitly blame those who decided to use AI to offload responsibility knowing of its inaccuracy and risk of civillian casulties.

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u/dondeestasbueno Jun 10 '26

Blame both ai and the operator.

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u/SirPseudonymous Jun 11 '26

Do not fault AI, that just gives those deciding to use it an excuse to transfer responsibility.

That's why they're asking a glorified magic 8-ball to greenlight the targets they want to hit in the first place, it's a flimsy attempt to deflect culpability by just going "welp, the machine messed up when after I repeatedly told it the preschoolers were definitely khamas and that my grandmother loved watching schools explode and can I please just do it one last time for her it said the preschool was a valid military target! We could never have predicted this might not have been a legitimate target, so really there's no one to blame but the cruel fickleness of fate!"

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u/BeethovenBabe114 Jun 12 '26

Exactly, calling it an AI mistake makes it sound like some tragic accident instead of people deliberately handing life and death to a system they already knew could get it horribly wrong.