Threats like this seem less real to me because the government has been so technologically inept lately. Garbage government websites, failed rollouts of huge programs (like healthcare, the CA highspeed rail), SpaceX taking the reigns away from NASA and the military awarding giant contracts to Amazon and Microsoft to keep their ancient tech infra running.
It feels like the only way they will get a fully autonomous AI driven robot weapon is if someone sells it to them.
Um yeah...someone sells the government all of its weapons. Literally all of them. It would be a dramatic change for the government to in-source weapons development.
I don't know too much about the internals of the military, but I think they already have a lot of very impressive technology that would seem at-odds with other signs of governmental ineptitude with technology. A government website being shit might not be viewed with as much urgency and importance as combat technology.
> It feels like the only way they will get a fully autonomous AI driven robot weapon is if someone sells it to them.
I mean, that might be how it happens? Military contractors might as well be seen as a part of the military.
It feels like the only way they will get a fully autonomous AI driven robot weapon is if someone sells it to them.