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All the more concerning that the Pentagon plans to have autonomous killing machines "ready" this year (hint: they won't actually be ready, but it's not like they'll tell us how many innocents they'll actually kill, especially with their very loose definitions of what a target is. They are yet to do that with the manual ones after all).

https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/04/16/drones-will-so...




Killing is one of those scenarios where high error rate is no big deal, as long as there are no Americans on the ground. /s


But you have to be able to identify individuals as Americans or non-Americans or at least generate good excuses for why your system killed them.




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