My biggest fear at the moment is robot armies and police forces.

Case in point : we're all expecting China needs to invade Taiwan soon, or they will run out of soldiers because of the one child policies of the 70s/80s.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is holding up against a "modern" army with quickly assembled drones.

So it all seems a bit like "they'll never put tanks through the Ardennes", sort of ?

Where and when will the first invasion of a country by a purely remote controlled, AI assisted army take place ?

Will robot battalions embed civilians to act as human shields ? Will the AI learn to mistreat the locals to maintain fear, or will they see it as a needless distraction and rush to the center of powers ?

If war is mostly played out from a disrance, will years of playing RTS give South Korea an edge ?

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hatthew 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> If war is mostly played out from a disrance, will years of playing RTS give South Korea an edge ?

Not sure if this is serious, but RTS skills are different from real-world battlefield skills. Macro is completely different, and while micro skills might be slightly transferrable, computers are so much better that no human will ever be microing real units on a real battlefield.

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kibwen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Marching humanoid terminator robots will never be as cheap as a drone. Autonomous suicide drone swarms are what should terrify you.

	▲	throw4847285 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You say that now, but once we perfect AMBAC technology and accidentally release large numbers of Minovsky particles, we will need humanoid combat vehicles to fight our battles!
	▲	Terr_ an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Or they might decide to, er, pre-deliver the payloads. "Citizen, congratulations on reaching your age of majority. Report for your Patriotic Assurance Implant at surgical bay 43B."
	▲	trhway 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Autonomous suicide drone swarms are easily countered by autonomous interceptor swarms. >Marching humanoid terminator robots ground bots, not necessarily marching, do have their value. They can have bulletproof armor, while still be relatively lightweight and small and fast. They can easily carry even 20-25mm autocannon - very destructive weapon, sometimes can even succeed against a real tank. And imagine when a swarm of drones lifts a ground bot, brings and drops it right into the needed point and protects it from the enemy drones while the ground bot just destructs the things around. Synergy between different weapons system has always been the super-weapon.

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Morromist 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

China had more births in 2025 than all of europe and russia combined so I don't think they're going to run out of soldiers.

	▲	marcus_holmes 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The more important fact is that China makes all the drones
	▲	mjcohen 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you believe them.

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thatguy0900 32 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To some extent it already has, Ukraine had a press release a few days ago stating they had attacked and taken a position using only robots and drones for the first time

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-position-take...

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markus_zhang 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think Russian army is very modern -- but maybe that's the reason of your quotation marks.

I kinda think that the competitions among the big dogs (US/Russia/China/etc.) would eventually green light ANY AI/Robots projects if they can justify tipping the scale somehow, and in the process completely destroys the last element of any political counter-weight. Because "fear gives men wings".

I would really hate to live in a dystopian world worse than what is described in the books/movies.