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by simple10 587 days ago
For military drones, yes, this will certainly happen if it hasn't already.

I'd love to see some predictions on manufacturing robots intentionally killing someone for the greater good in a sort of Trolley Problem [1]. The theoretical potential of AI safety protocols getting misaligned and a robot deciding to sacrifice a human worker to save multiple lives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

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That’s the Robotic Civil Wars as imagined by Asimov.

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Robotic_Civil_Wars

That'll happen with self driving cars. It'll be interesting to see whether pedestrian or occupants are considered more valuable.