Ukrainians and Russians are experimenting with FPV drones using AI for target acquisition and homing. Not yet economically viable because it is cheaper to give your FPV fiber spool instead of Nvidia Jetson to bypass jamming.

When we have first politician blown to bits by autonomous AI FPV there will be sheer panic of every politician in the world to put the genie back into the bottle. It will be too late at that point.

Anthropic is correct with its no killbot rule.

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IndeanCondor 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Autonomous loitering munitions with 'AI' (image classification CNNs) are already in service and have been used - most demonstrably by the IDF.

Even during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, Azeri loitering munitions were able to suppress Armenian air defenses by hitting them when they rolled out of of concealment. I believe that killchain requires a level of autonomous functionality.

	▲	general1465 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Azerbaijan was buying a lot of weapons from Israel prior to Nagorno Karabach war, so it is very likely that you have been talking about same weapon system in both cases. However Russians and Ukrainians are using AI recognition in recon drones, but not yet in FPV. There is strong suspicion that long range one way attack drones are using AI during terminal guidance, but I did not see it confirmed by either side.

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danavar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If one of our main adversaries is building these weapons already, this is actually an argument for developing this technology ourselves.

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ok_dad 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That would be an argument to build anti-drone technology, not more killbots!

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danavar 3 hours ago | parent [-]

War isn’t that simple

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ok_dad 2 hours ago | parent [-]

We’re not at war with anyone Jesus Christ

	▲	danavar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have to build your weaponry ahead of time, obviously :)