Friday, August 28, 2020

The Pentagon Wants Robot Generals

"The Pentagon is seeking to take this process to an entirely new level—by replacing not just ordinary soldiers and their weapons, but potentially admirals and generals with robotic systems," writes Klare. (Photo: US Air Force)

Michael Klare, Tom Dispatch: Artificial (Un)intelligence and the U.S. Military

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the U.S. military, as TomDispatch regular Michael Klare informs us today, has had a brilliant idea -- robot generals (!) -- into which to sink yet more billions of our tax dollars as divestment in our infrastructure, schools, health care, and the like only continues in the age of Trump and the midst of a grim pandemic. Of course, given American generalship in the “forever wars” of the twenty-first century, who doesn’t feel that almost anyone or anything could have done better? Still, to turn the potential destruction of the planet itself (via nuclear arms) over to computers? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, actually, let Klare fill you in on just what could prove to be a Terminator moment for humanity. Tom

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WNU Editor: Skynet is smiling.

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