The race for killer AIs isn't happening in China right now. It's happening in Russia and Ukraine, as each scrambles to make new generations of drones that are fully autonomous and can keep killing people even if their operators are overwhelmed or neutralized.
Many Russians believe Ukraine and its backers have actually achieved it - they think there are too many drones for each of them to plausibly have a controller, and that they are essentially being murdered by self-contained killer robots at this point.
I know the US has autonomous drones that fly, evade, hide, search, and highlight targets autonomously, but due to regulatory and sanity concerns, ping a home command and "ask" if they may kill their target. Which means one of those drinking-bird-toys tapping a "confirm" key could command a fleet of drones, in theory.
It's likely Ukraine is using similar tech, since that is old US tech and the US is sending out their old tech. One person can "command" a thousand drones, since all they need to do is look at a photo and confirm "kill this one? Y/N" every so often.
The race for killer AIs isn't happening in China right now. It's happening in Russia and Ukraine, as each scrambles to make new generations of drones that are fully autonomous and can keep killing people even if their operators are overwhelmed or neutralized.
Many Russians believe Ukraine and its backers have actually achieved it - they think there are too many drones for each of them to plausibly have a controller, and that they are essentially being murdered by self-contained killer robots at this point.
Too many drones for each to have a controller in Ukraine, maybe?
...maybe. But maybe they're actually operating without any controller at all. Which is an unnerving thought.
I know the US has autonomous drones that fly, evade, hide, search, and highlight targets autonomously, but due to regulatory and sanity concerns, ping a home command and "ask" if they may kill their target. Which means one of those drinking-bird-toys tapping a "confirm" key could command a fleet of drones, in theory.
It's likely Ukraine is using similar tech, since that is old US tech and the US is sending out their old tech. One person can "command" a thousand drones, since all they need to do is look at a photo and confirm "kill this one? Y/N" every so often.