Ever wonder why the "Don't Tread On Me" gang seem to ignore the fact that the big bad gubmint has weapons that are about to make AR-15s look like pop guns?
And actually, it makes me wonder if they've already picked the wrong side.
Here it comes, kids.
A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says
A "lethal" weaponized drone "hunted down a human target" without being told to, likely for the first time, according to a UN report seen by the New Scientist.
In the March 2020 incident, a Kargu-2 quadcopter autonomously attacked a person during a conflict between Libyan government forces and a breakaway military faction, led by the Libyan National Army's Khalifa Haftar, the Daily Star reported.
The Turkish-built Kargu-2, a deadly attack drone designed for asymmetric warfare and anti-terrorist operations, targeted one of Haftar's soldiers while he tried to retreat, according to the paper.
The drone, which can be directed to detonate on impact, was operating in a "'highly effective' autonomous mode that required no human controller," the New York Post reported.
"The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true 'fire, forget and find' capability," the report from the UN Security Council's panel of experts on Libya said.
This is likely the first time drones have attacked humans without instructions to do so, Zak Kallenborn, a national-security consultant who specializes in unmanned systems and drones, confirmed in the report.
Kallenborn has concerns about the future of autonomous drones. "How brittle is the object recognition system?" he said in the report. "How often does it misidentify targets?"
Jack Watling, a researcher on land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute, told the New Scientist that the incident demonstrates the "urgent and important" need to discuss the potential regulation of autonomous weapons.
Human Rights Watch has called for an end to so-called "killer robots" and is campaigning for a "preemptive ban on the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons," according to a report by the nonprofit.
🤔Oh Shit the End is Nigh!🤬
ReplyDeleteSo much for the 3 laws of robotics; & the logic Isaac Asimov employed in their formulation.
They are as follows: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. ... A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. How Error free is the object recognition system? How often does it misidentify targets, & who aside from the AI, makes those decisions & what happens to aspects of accountability?
🤤The idea of AI autonomously deciding whom to kill is beyond frightening on sooooo many levels. This would set a precedent that would have horrific results, & could end civilization as we know it. "Ever wonder why the "Don't Tread On Me" gang seem to ignore the fact that the big bad gubmint has weapons that make AR-15s look like pop guns"? That pesky fact completely destroys their rationale of armed citizens being any real deterrent to a tyrannical government, for the farce it truly is; cause “That's the way it is, truly-uly-uly is, it's Bullshit. Only a unified coalition of the masses can ever stop tyranny. Add autonomous, & large scale remote control weaponry to the mix, & there maybe no realistic recourse against tyrannical rule; at all!!!
Worth watching how that one develops.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the visit, btw.