This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.
That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.
You must log in or # to comment.
Once the weapon systems “think” for themselves, the deranged “leaders” at the top can order whatever they want and have no concern that front line infantry might object about war crimes or constitutionality.
This is obviously the crux of the dispute between Anthropic and the fascist state a couple of months ago.
At least if they actively massacre us all we won’t have to watch the world burn (literally) as the unstoppable climate change train slams into the station without any brakes.
I hope they have a sick enough sense of humor to code name the command and control system SkyNet.
We need netlaunchers.
We need 0 billionaires and 0 cops
I’m excited and can’t wait until a mechanical hound from Fahrenheit 451 jumps through my window at night to “bite” me with its lethal needle…
Is that a headline, or a new anime title? I can’t tell anymore…
