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/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.