Eric Neyer
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

An automated military can only increase terrorism and civilian deaths. No government is going to be satisfied with robots fighting one another and throwing away defense budget without blood payment in return. Eventually the robots will have to resort to killing innocents like our drones already have begun doing. Once the technology trickles down further (you can already buy a drone off the shelf that is capable of delivering a remote controlled or timed explosive) we’ll all be in much greater danger and US hawks will use that as justification for us to get even deeper into AI murder, even though we’re creating that situation now by escalating every conflict we’re in. We unleashed the drones and the genie won’t go back!

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