Lethal autonomous weapons can select targets and act without human decision, lowering battlefield human casualties and political resistance. Reduced human costs can weaken deterrence and make invasions easier for wealthier states against poorer ones. The shift from human to machine losses can encourage governments to initiate conflicts. Advanced autonomous systems are expensive to produce and replace, creating strong incentives for defense contractors. Low-cost AI-enabled drones can threaten high-value conventional platforms, enabling inexpensive attacks on expensive assets. Manned platforms face increasing obsolescence where unmanned, AI-capable systems can tolerate higher stresses and reduce concerns about loss of life.
lethal autonomous weapons, that is weapons that decide by themselves who to kill or maim, are a big advantage if a rich country wants to invade a poor country. The thing that stops rich countries invading poor countries is their citizens coming back in body bags, If you have lethal autonomous weapons, instead of dead people coming back, you'll get dead robots coming back.
That'll be just great for the military-industrial complex because they'll be expensive to replace, It's fairly clear it's already transformed warfare, A $500 drone can now destroy a multimillion-dollar tank. Fighter jets with people in them are a silly idea now, If you can have AI in them, AIs can withstand much bigger accelerations - and you don't have to worry so much about loss of life.
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