MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in drone and military AI threads as a chilling dramatization, though some find it alarmist.
What it is
A dramatized fictional video of micro drones with facial recognition and swarm AI used as autonomous killer weapons. It is a Slaughterbots-style warning about lethal autonomous weapons.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends Lennie · 2018-06 · on “Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially”
> But what could possibly go wrong when military/war artificial intelligence is combined with all your data and knows everything about you? Someone made a video about it: [this video] Dailymotion (French company) mirror: [LINK]
Cites dontreact · 2018-06 · on “Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially”
Disclaimer: I also work at Google I think that the problem is more specific than working with the military or developing weapons, and it's important to disentangle the more broad concerns with military work versus the concerns about this specific project occurring at Google. I personally would not like to work on developing weapons but it's definitely much harder to defend a position such as "building ships for the U.S Navy is evil". The problem with Project Maven is plugging A.I. into drones. Sure, you can argue that A.I. today is limited and the technology isn't there to make them autonomous. However, perception/object detection is a huge component of what would be needed as part of an int
Cites nosuchthing · 2019-03 · on “F-35's Towed Decoys”
I'd envision "kamikaze" drones being the most feasible thing to be effective first. Basically much smarter missiles. A vision of a swarm of something.. Reminds me of this foreboding demonstration of micro drone kamikaze assassinations: [this video]
Cites nosuchthing · 2019-06 · on “DJI RoboMaster S1”
Wow so crowdsourcing the military industrial complex's artificial intelligence KILLBOTS? This almost looks like it's satire, but it's completely real and for sale, just $499! Reminds me of this: [this video]
Cites neilv · 2019-09 · on “Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities”
An earlier dramatization video: [this video] It comes across to me as a bit over-the-top and alarmist, but, if I consider what I know of technology and (less) history, such events and dynamics seem plausible.
Cites hiidrew · 2020-05 · on “I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over the world”
Something like this terrifies me- [this video] Tl;dw, mini weaponized AI drones get loose and mass havoc ensues. I'm sure the feasibility behind these isn't close but still, it's an interesting design fiction.
Cites Baeocystin · 2020-06 · on “Boston Dynamics shop: Spot Explorer”
Here's the video you're referencing. And yes, it is chilling in its utter believability. [this video]
Cites belter · 2021-07 · on “1800 drones flying in unison to form an illuminated globe over Tokyo stadium”
Nice picture, but does this give anybody else an uneasy feeling? :-) "Micro Drones Killer Arms Robots" [this video] "Hacking Microdrones for Lethal Gain" [LINK] "Attack on the drones: security vulnerabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles" [LINK] "U.S. Army’s New Drone Swarm May Be A Weapon Of Mass Destruction" [LINK] "New Chinese weapon launches swarm of suicide drones annihilating targets" [LINK]