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Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed With Rocket Launcher
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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Why are people in the comments talking like this is the beginning of an AI uprising? This thing is still remotely controlled by a soldier and not autonomous. It's about as dangerous as any gun, which is to say, pretty dangerous but nothing we haven't seen before. If you want an army of weaponised ribo dogs you'd also need an actual army of people to control them
Largely, I expect, because of the point you make. Needing an actual army of people to control them becomes a limiting factor. Add on to that that requiring remote control makes them vulnerable to jamming, and there's a strong incentive to start making them more and more autonomous both to enable fewer soldiers to control more bots, and to allow them to retain some function without it.
It just largely seems like it will be too significant a temptation.