Killer Robots

Fathom

Killer Robots are here - And we need to regulate them. Foreign Policy (May 2022). By Robert Treger and Laura Luca.

Fathom

Watched a sci-fi fiction film Red Planet (2000). It mostly fails to suspend my disbelief. Aside from that, the robot they took with them sustained damage upon landing on Mars. The human oversight programming was lost, and the robot went autonomous and militarily defensive, perceiving the astronauts as the enemy and attacked accordingly.

Makes me wonder to what extent damage to today’s killer robots could make them go renegade?

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120506491#Comment_120506491

From a hardware perspective it's very easy to have your computing systems resilient to damage. Triple redundancy can be done at individual gate level for resistance against cosmic rays flipping bits or it can be done by having different systems using different types of hardware checking each other.

Software is the problem. You don't even need garbage in to get garbage out.

Airbus used Intel and Motorola processors AND two different non-interacting teams for their software when they started off fly by wire. And a voting system to decide which to trust.

This is ancient history in the Aircraft industry. Thee is no excuse for doing otherwise in life critical systems, especially considering military budgets.

Fathom

The Independent 18 October 2023 claims Ukraine has been using “Autonomous kill AI drones” to strike Russian targets without human intervention after launch.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

Is this how the Butlerian Jihad starts ?

Fathom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121764763#Comment_121764763

Worm it’s way in?

Fathom

Tank killing robots armed with the most powerful US missiles in US Military Times vid (one month ago).

Wonders if they are experimenting with generative AI and killer robots?

Capt'n Midnight

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Fathom

The Russian Ukraine war fosters the development of autonomous weapons systems. How autonomous will they become as the war continues into its third year?

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2024/1108/1479951-drone-injury-dublin/

A man mowing a lawn in his back garden suffered a minor injury after a propeller blade fell off a drone that was delivering a package to a customer in north Dublin two years ago.

A report by the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) has revealed details of the incident involving a GEN 3.8 unmanned aircraft at Tankardstown, Balbriggan, Co Dublin on 14 July 2022.

Capt'n Midnight

In other dystopian news

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers , They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds

"One additional robot per 1,000 workers decreased the average local market career value by $3.9K between 2004 and 2008 and by $2.48K between 2008 and 2016,

Poverty is a leading cause of premature death :(

Fathom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122832859#Comment_122832859

Time for robot displaced workers to train up

Capt'n Midnight

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Fathom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123010638#Comment_123010638

Robotic food fight?

Capt'n Midnight

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