“China and Russia are developing battle networks that are as good as our own. They can see as far as ours can see; they can throw guided munitions as far as we can,” said Robert O. Work, the deputy defense secretary, who has been a driving force for the development of autonomous weapons. “What we want to do is just make sure that we would be able to win as quickly as we have been able to do in the past.” ... The weapons, in the Pentagon’s vision, would be less like the Terminator and more like the comic-book superhero Iron Man
Such blatant propaganda by the NYT. Just like with Stuxnet, the US is pouring black budget dollars into novel asymmetric offensive weapons that'll be rapidly put to use in the field, all under the guise of "defense". It's grossly irresponsible.
In the position of sole superpower barely hanging onto our role with the obvious rise of a multipolar world, the USA should be pulling all its strings to put in place international institutions and laws that will uphold stability and the type of global civilization we've become used to. Instead we're throwing money that should be rebuilding infrastructure and paying for people's health care into crazy destabilizing weapons systems where we'll have a 5 year "strategic advantage" headstart on the tech but the precedents we set (a cyberweapon that infected computers worldwide, Terminator autonomous weapons?) will come back to haunt us and the rest of the world.
Such blatant propaganda by the NYT. Just like with Stuxnet, the US is pouring black budget dollars into novel asymmetric offensive weapons that'll be rapidly put to use in the field, all under the guise of "defense". It's grossly irresponsible.
In the position of sole superpower barely hanging onto our role with the obvious rise of a multipolar world, the USA should be pulling all its strings to put in place international institutions and laws that will uphold stability and the type of global civilization we've become used to. Instead we're throwing money that should be rebuilding infrastructure and paying for people's health care into crazy destabilizing weapons systems where we'll have a 5 year "strategic advantage" headstart on the tech but the precedents we set (a cyberweapon that infected computers worldwide, Terminator autonomous weapons?) will come back to haunt us and the rest of the world.