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    Default The UK was opposed to autonomise weapons — until it wasn't.

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    As recently as April, the United Kingdom tried to position itself as the world leader for artificial intelligence ethics. Now it’s actively developing the ultimate ethical no-no: fully-autonomous weapons systems and fighter drones.

    Officially, the U.K. government’s public stance is that it has no interest in developing autonomous weapons — but it refuses to join most other U.N. members and ban the technology outright.

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    Maybe that’s because, according to a new story in the Guardian, the U.K. government is funding dozens of research programs working to bring together the underlying technology of autonomous drones, decision-making AI, and strategic weapons systems into military killbots.

    The Ministry of Defense has suggested that AI-powered autonomous weapons may be feasible to make and effective in combat by 2030. And if the report that The Guardian was covering, titled “Off the Leash: How the UK is developing the technology to build armed autonomous drones” is to be believed, we’d all be better off if they stopped.

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    Twelve years is a very short time to put human lives in the hands of an algorithm. Especially one that’s built specifically to end human lives. Facial recognition software used by police are notorious for false positives and can be easily fooled. And algorithms reflect the same biases and prejudices of the people who train them — even the most objective AI systems are subject to whatever axes their programmers have to grind.

    Consider those two problems when it comes to an algorithm built by the military specifically to find and kill enemy combatants and other targets. Any misstep could be horrifying — and given how frequently algorithms game their own rules, there will almost certainly be catastrophic errors if these machines are ever used.




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    The UK needs to stop trying to police the world, the world isn't happy about it & is showing low tech ways to terrorise the electorate!
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    At least they won’t be soldiers have there legs blown off and with these drones there’s always a human controlling them and definitely take the kill shot . These have been flown out of the uk at molesworth for a few years and isis have been using them in Syria against us and what’s left of Syria. War and weapons make money 💴. That’s all what our government is a business which likes to make money. Full stop not democracy 😃🇬🇧


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    Quote Originally Posted by British green View Post
    At least they won’t be soldiers have there legs blown off
    Correct. It will be civilians that have legs blown off when the enemy come to our country, without uniforms, and detonate IEDs in densely populated areas

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    Quote Originally Posted by M_C View Post
    Correct. It will be civilians that have legs blown off when the enemy come to our country, without uniforms, and detonate IEDs in densely populated areas
    But this only happens because of our government waging wars were we don’t belong and allowing refugees in with no background checks 🇬🇧


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    Quote Originally Posted by British green View Post
    But this only happens because of our government waging wars were we don’t belong and allowing refugees in with no background checks 


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    In that, we are in total agreement

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    Quote Originally Posted by M_C View Post
    Correct. It will be civilians that have legs blown off when the enemy come to our country, without uniforms, and detonate IEDs in densely populated areas
    FFS M_C... But so true though.

    Sometimes I think that the "terrorists" are people who have been duped, or played, into the hands of some greater power. And frankly, my little head is struggling to process if there is a good side to any of the sides at all, if what is "good" gets twisted.

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    One thing for sure is Isis is not a good thing in anyway shape or form I’d prefer to have the talibhan back . A good insight to this is a book called desert sniper written by a uk civilian who went to Syria to document the war and ended up taking arms and fighting the war against Isis. It’s a real life account of his time there and to come home and be charged ☹️ 🇬🇧


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