That's really sad.<p>The drones aren't the only robots on the battlefield. I'm not surprised at the extent of the propaganda buy in, it is life or death whether you support publicly the dear leader.<p>But Jesus. At least the Russian conscripts know what is up. Prisoner shock troops, meat waves, unbridled bombardment, brainwashed mercenaries.<p>A lot of Internet agents happily excuse Putins conduct in the lens of geopolitical realism, but the fact remains he's an soulless ghoul.<p>With total mind control AI could ming packaged by silicon valley, authoritarians will have even tighter grips on the world.<p>With democracy teetering on our side from AI data harvesting and profiling in social networks, I'm very pessimistic about the medium and long term future of the world.<p>I think we have about 30 years tops before virtually every country is worse than 1984.<p>I think this is the real danger of AI. It's simply too powerful a tool for centralizing political power and enabling authoritarianism. The more I think about it, it's a done deal, because once it gets imposed by a country, there is no escape. There is no technological counter.<p>The US has everything, and I mean everything to become lock down controlled at a whim.