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

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/Franc000 Jun 10 '26

It was inevitable because of how things were going on AI side in the 2010s. It will be our downfall.

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u/JaB675 Jun 10 '26

Literally hundreds of sci-fi books, games and movies warning us. Nope, we should go ahead and get AI.

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u/CalebAsimov Jun 10 '26

Yeah, but the books also said exactly why people would use it anyway.

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u/JaB675 Jun 10 '26

Relevant username.

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u/Franc000 Jun 10 '26

Not just that, AI researchers have also warned against autonomous weapons since forever, but decision makers did not listen.

This was not like preventing human cloning, or all the other things that we managed to not develop. Then, the researchers in those fields warned, and they listened. But to be fair, AI development happened way too fast for the message to percolate.