[mathinpens]

I am sorta mixed on this. Is it better to be killed by a person or a computer? does it make a difference? what if the computer system kills less `innocent' people than a dumb human? I don't think it is that black and white.

It is very troubling though.

[mirimir]

In the short term, it means that high-tech nations can start wars with less concern about citizen backlash over troop deaths and injuries. That's already evident for the US, given modern weaponry. They're still limited by costs of pacification, however. And AI will help reduce those costs.

In the long term, Skynet.

[mathinpens]

meh we already are kinda in that world. as for skynet...throws hands in the air

[more_corn]

Picture yourself on the receiving end. You don't want fast, efficient, perfect targeting. That's the stuff of nightmares. The Italian fascists were every bit as ideologically scary as the German ones, but the German ones were ruthlessly efficient and capable. Let's not make the weapons the Nazis would have wanted.

[mathinpens]

lol. obviously if I am on the receiving end I want bad targeting!