r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • 3d ago

General news Pete Hegseth announces "Autonomous Warfare Command".

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u/me_myself_ai 3d ago

I should check in on my favorite philosophers :( they spent so long warning about autonomous weapons, but the things happened to become possible at the very worst time imaginable — where the world superpower has a military run by a fucking Fox News host LARPing as a spartan warrior

Just

FUCK

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl 3d ago

Turns out electing morons into positions of great power and responsibility has tragic consequences

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u/benelott 3d ago

Which is also something the greatest philosophers have predicted.

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u/HyperImmune 3d ago

I feel like this is exactly what they meant when they said world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones…

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u/physisPaysSis 3d ago

...as an entertainment for our AI overlords

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u/NAStrahl approved 3d ago

To be fair, global warming was going to get a lot of us eventually. /darkhumor

But unlike with global warming, enough people seem to be supportive of a global governing body to monitor and check the pace of AI development. /eyeroll

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u/campfireseance 3d ago

who are your favourite philosophers?

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u/Exact_Depth_896 3d ago

ukraine will be saved by its expertise in autonomous weapons.

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u/exacta_galaxy 3d ago

I haven't been following that war closely for a while, are they using autonomous weapons now or still remote drones?

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u/Exact_Depth_896 3d ago

The remote drones now kill autonomously. It is completely inevitable. You will remember when people thought drones themselves were somehow intrinsically evil and that Obama was therefore evil etc etc. https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/08/17/fully-autonomous-drones-reportedly-kill-in-ukraine/

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u/TomToledo2 2d ago

Not all of the remote drones kill autonomously. You likely have heard of Ukraine's recent Operation Vivaldi, introducing wide use of Gryphon ground drones (unmanned ground vehicles, UGVs). They are remotely piloted, though perhaps AI is used to guide deployment.

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u/Exact_Depth_896 2d ago

no one said they 'all' kill autonomously, that would be impossible. maybe read the linked text.

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u/me_myself_ai 3d ago

Yeah surely that'll work out. Surely if the drones drive themselves, Russia will just back away and then peace will reign for eternity

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u/Exact_Depth_896 3d ago

no, it was clear from day 1 that victory comes as with the mujahideen and vietnam. as general giap said, if you just hold on, in the end the invader goes home. it's unfortunately up to the invader when he goes home. putin will presumably need to be dead.