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I hope they put some failsafe so that it cannot take action if the estimated casualties puts humans below a minimum viable population.

Cool, needed a reason to stay inside my bunker I'm about to build.

It will be fine. We can just make drones that can autonomously kill other drones. There is no obvious way to counter that.

Cries in Screamers.

Well that's a terrifying thought. You guys bunkered up?

The only fair approach would be to start with the police instead of the army.

Why test this on everybody else except your own? On top of that, AI might even do a better job than the US police

So, it starts...

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The deployment of AI-controlled drones that can make autonomous decisions about whether to kill human targets is moving closer to reality, The New York Times reported.

Lethal autonomous weapons, that can select targets using AI, are being developed by countries including the US, China, and Israel.

The use of the so-called "killer robots" would mark a disturbing development, say critics, handing life and death battlefield decisions to machines with no human input.

"This is really one of the most significant inflection points for humanity," Alexander Kmentt, Austria's chief negotiator on the issue, told The Times.

Frank Kendall, the Air Force secretary, told The Times that AI drones will need to have the capability to make lethal decisions while under human supervision.

The New Scientist reported in October that AI-controlled drones have already been deployed on the battlefield by Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion, though it's unclear if any have taken action resulting in human casualties.

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How about no

I'm guessing their argument is that if they don't do it first, China will. And they're probably right, unfortunately. I don't see a way around a future with AI weapons platforms if technology continues to progress.