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Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines

5 pointsby curmudgeon22over 1 year ago

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bell-cotover 1 year ago
Reaction: If you need a cool topic for your Philosophy 407 term paper, or the click-bait articles you&#x27;re writing for the web, then gushing about the murky morality of &quot;AI&quot; weapons of war is a great decision.<p><i>Vs. back in reality</i> - consider the morality of the large and numerous marine minefields which both sides laid in <i>WWI</i>. (1914 to 1918.) Mines with no brains at all - they&#x27;d just blow up if a ship got too close. Regardless of &quot;one of our ships&quot; vs. &quot;one of their ships&quot; vs. &quot;innocent civilian fishermen&quot; vs. &quot;the war ended 10 years ago&quot; vs. whatever. Or WWI battlefield interactions of innocent civilians with either brainless artillery shells, or with hurried&#x2F;angry&#x2F;fatigued&#x2F;hastily-trained&#x2F;etc. soldiers who&#x27;d seen plenty of their comrades killed and were not interested in exposing themselves to enemy fire to be extra-sure that every seeming enemy soldier they shot at was really what they first guessed.