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Rise of the AI Soldiers (time.com)
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[–] XLE@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“We think there’s a moral imperative to put these robots into war instead of soldiers,” says Mike LeBlanc, a 14-year Marine Corps veteran with multiple tours of Iraq and Afghanistan...

Truly the only two options: trench warfare with either people or robots.

Current Pentagon protocols decree automated systems can engage only with a human green light, and Foundation insists that is also its intention for Phantom.

No they don't.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

That is the dumbest moral justification I've ever heard.