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RE: Musk, Zuckerberg Trade Insults Over AI's "Existential Threat"
Agree in some respects esp. on Musk and Zuck., but killer drones/robots are not AI. As you said, they are controlled by people much like any other weapon.
And there is great pressure being applied to make those killbots autonomous, which is to let AI decide to pull the trigger. There are battlefield situations where the decisions being made more quickly will determine the winner.
AI will be handed these weapons, because only AI can act quickly enough.
I expect there have already been instances of this happening. AEGIS, for example, does not wait for human confirmation.
I will defer to your expertise on AEGIS and automated triggers. That is the problem with many technologies now if one side takes the moral route e.g. only human controlled triggers and the other takes the automated AI route then it could clearly result in a first-strike takes all scenario as you say. Unfortunate and may result in new applications of mutually assured destruction.