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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:01:03 JST Ars Technica

   Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

   Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Garret :bongoCat: (garretble@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:03:53 JST Garret :bongoCat:

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     @arstechnica

     Human oversight…for now.

   • Steve Duncan (steveduncan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:06:37 JST Steve Duncan

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     @arstechnica Terminator was a documentary.

   • Bluebabbler (bluebabbler@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:06:49 JST Bluebabbler

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     @arstechnica it is abhorrent and disgusting to even think of designing such things.

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:08:37 JST Urzl

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     @arstechnica Oh good, another easy way for a bored 18 year old to kill people with the blessings of the US government.

     We're setting ourselves up to "meh" our way into war crimes.

   • Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston (jmcrookston@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:18:13 JST Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston

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     One soldier per 500 dogs seems like good oversight. 🤡

     We literally just heard what happens when militaries do this with the Israeli whistleblowers who said they were just clicking buttons and authorizing the bombings, no meaningful oversight was happening .

   • Andrew Bennett (larthallor@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:25:50 JST Andrew Bennett

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     @arstechnica We're currently in an AI race to determine whether rich people will be able to use such robots to rule over the people they still need to work for them or to be able to go ahead and just eliminate those they no longer need at all.

     Why would billionaires put up with being constrained by a functioning democracy when they no longer need all those voters to work for them?

   • volkon (volkon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 05:51:16 JST volkon

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     @arstechnica why not mount a nuke on it?

   • Nona #DarkGranny (nona1@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 07:31:01 JST Nona #DarkGranny

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     @arstechnica what could possibly go wrong?

   • Bigben (thrasher3000@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 11:06:54 JST Bigben

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     @arstechnica a'la the mechanical hound in Fahrenheit 451.