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I thought I would post this over here. Had a scary thought after watching it. There is an argument that humans should always be a go between on the battle field with "smart' machines. But if your adversary is using technology able to find, identify, select and fire on targets faster than any human, you would have no choice but to employ similar technology. The ensuing firefight would boggle the mind between two such enemies. If any minds are left.

Didn't Capt Kirk have this in 1966?
I'm sure I saw it.

Quote: rxwine

There is an argument that humans should always be a go between on the battle field with "smart' machines. But if your adversary is using technology able to find, identify, select and fire on targets faster than any human, you would have no choice but to employ similar technology. The ensuing firefight would boggle the mind between two such enemies. If any minds are left.

You can boggle the mind of your enemy but its safer to overwhelm his software than his mind.
For decades we've had executive orders authorizing bypassing the President for nuclear launch codess.

For decades we've had pilots who fly with their radar on and their hand holding the trigger down; the moment there is the slightest signal he automatically kills off a flock of birds or his wingman which ever it was.

Indonesia already has an autonomous naval platform which automatically homes in on SatPhone and Cell Phone signals inside Indonesian fishing waters. No humans on board much less in the loop.

Most close aboard defense weapons are autonomous mode only or else off.

No human is fast enough to intercept defensively against a modern weapon system at close range without help.

Defensive weapons are different than offensive systems, launching and flying into remote areas without humans intervening or controlling some aspect of the decision making even from afar. Nor set landscape following targets like cruise missiles

It's essentially letting a machine find and decide which tall guy was Osama bin Laden, taking him out, then reporting back. Or perhaps just bringing his head.

Think of Falklands "War": Argentinian fighter sight British Destroyer, fires autonomous standoff cruise missl, Destroyer using current course and wind data fires chaff creating cloud of radar confusion, incoming cruise missle knowing its confused seeks to scan wider area to re-acquire its target, instead it acquires civilian freighter American Conveyor carrying ALL the helicopters planned to ferry the troops to the battle field. So instead they have to go yomping cross country which would have been murder had the enemy been professional soldiers rather than raw recent recruits.















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