wet forest moon folklorist
Back in 2022, contractor Jiren Parikh dismissed concerns about his robot dogs capacity to carry AI powered weapons
"Parikh says that he supports Ghost Robotics’ defense customers to outfit the robots as they see fit to keep people safe. Further, he says, the robot dogs with weapons are more akin to drones since they... require a remote human operator to make any decision to fire... “The idea that these robots are sentient beings and have AI to do whatever is silly.”"
wet forest moon folklorist
the US military has also been testing similar AI-powered machine gun robot dogs from a different contractor recently
https://thedefensepost.com/2024/05/09/us-marines-robot-dogs/
wet forest moon folklorist
Two years later, Parikh's firm has been purchased by a Korean contractor who is more than happy to supply the US military with AI-guided automatic weapons on its robot dogs, and the US military is more than happy to "test" them in the Middle East
https://futurism.com/the-byte/army-robot-dogs-guns-middle-east
wet forest moon folklorist
i don't have strong enough words to condemn what the US has chosen to do with its resources. slums are multiplying around our cities; housing, healthcare and childcare are catastrophically unaffordable; higher education is under attack. with no functional political opposition to unchecked militarism, we continue to invest enormous sums in our ability to kill and subjugate in increasingly dystopian ways, even as the line between foreign wars and domestic law enforcement grows thinner and thinner
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