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by baybal2 1917 days ago
A battlefield superior "AI" can already be easily fielded.

Just like Goalkeeper will beat any human operated gun, a cheap disposable drone swarm pointed at an enemy country with a program to blow up anything resembling an airfield will beat any military general at leading an air campaign, and will probably beat even a nuclear weapon in effectiveness. It's already possible without any real AI. It's just nobody bothered to make one (or probably did, and is keeping quiet about it.)

It's just we did not have a big war in the age of powerful, disposable computers, and thus never weaponized it. There are many weapons today which claim to "beat nuclear weapons" in their respective context, with the main determinant of them being "super" weapons is the lack of humans in the loop.

All of them can be developed, and weaponized, it's just a man with a gun, artillery, and amassed air, or armour already works superbly well at the task, and most importantly does so reasonably economically.

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> cheap disposable drone swarm pointed at an enemy country with a program to blow up anything resembling an airfield

I don't think that exists. We have cheap drones that won't do much to an airfield and don't have much range.

We have B52s that can blow up an airfield but those aren't drones. Or cheap.