New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings

The U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations.

Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane.

The new “Special Operations Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.

  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    The unbelievable hubris and short-sightedness of believing you can freely open this pandora’s box and never have it used against you.

    I have no doubt they can do what they intend. But are they really this unimaginably stupid to think they’re the only ones who will ever be capable of doing this? They evidently can’t even shoot down Iranian drones and missiles as it is. How do they imagine this is going to end for them?

  • Lirton@lemmy.today
    2·
    15 hours ago

    I hope that they, at least, partially remember John Cameron’s work and will set reliable restrictions for AI. The last thing we need today is an analog of a Skynet…

    • CubitOomOPEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      There is no such thing as a reliable restriction on a system that has a catastrophic failure rate of 1% per task (at best).

      • Lirton@lemmy.today
        2·
        14 hours ago

        At very least, I hope that they will not give it access to ballistic missiles. Moreover to nuclear ones.