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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons.

Apparently no one was paying attention to Azerbaijan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there any chance that this could evolve into proxy wars being fought between robot armies, and result in a reduced loss of human life?

[–] The_v 3 points 6 months ago

No. Humans use technology to kill humans.

[–] Mango 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's slaughterbots.

Even scarier is that the people making them don't even need to know what they're making.

https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU?si=V2YFJ29QOD3Tvfu_

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Here's a link without site tracking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If we just let robts fight robots it's just becoming a super expensive video game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

...With civilians caught in the middle

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago