The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China's growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech on Monday.

US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years::The United States military plans to start using thousands of autonomous weapons systems in the next two years in a bid to counter China’s growing power, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in a speech …

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I think this would be an instance where you don’t want the murder-bot to be able to identify you

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Eh as an unimportant rando, I’m more worried about incorrectly being identified as someone important rather than being singled out and targeted myself.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      So basically it’ll work exactly like the human-controlled drones, murdering children and brown people.

      Mission accomplished.