While many think that they should not work on such projects, my take is the opposite.
If we don't work on these projects, then we will not have autonomous killing machines, and our rivals will.
Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield.
If countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Japan, Israel etc. do not have these, and China, Iran, and Russia do (they surely do or soon will), we are at massive disadvantage.
We will have to deploy humans on the field when they won't have to. That is a gap too wide to exist. It is more fundamental than gunpowder.
Like Archimedes created massive war machines, and mathematicians and physicists worked on artillery, weapons, and Manhattan project, AI scientists of today should help develop autonomous killing machines. Freedom isn't free.
[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/05/killer-flying-robots-dr....
If we don't work on these projects, then we will not have autonomous killing machines, and our rivals will.
Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield.
If countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, India, Japan, Israel etc. do not have these, and China, Iran, and Russia do (they surely do or soon will), we are at massive disadvantage.
We will have to deploy humans on the field when they won't have to. That is a gap too wide to exist. It is more fundamental than gunpowder.
Like Archimedes created massive war machines, and mathematicians and physicists worked on artillery, weapons, and Manhattan project, AI scientists of today should help develop autonomous killing machines. Freedom isn't free.
[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/05/killer-flying-robots-dr....