Already, drones are able to fly themselves independently so they can stay airborne if they lose touch with human...
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Already, drones are able to fly themselves independently so they can stay airborne if they lose touch with human pilots. Soon they may be able to make their own tactical decisions. At Georgia Tech in the United States this summer, researchers programmed swarms of light drones to fight their own aerial dogfights. The U.S. military is trying out similar products.
That means one operator could command many, many more drones – or that they might not need direct supervision at all.
Even more important than what is happening in robotics may be the wider developments in artificial intelligence. That won’t make warfare necessarily more deadly – a bomb dropped from a drone is not in itself less lethal than one from a manned aircraft. While it’s possible that greater accuracy might reduce casualties, some analysts fear that the changes brought by new unmanned systems might themselves fuel new conflicts.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apps-robots-commentary/commentary-the-coming-robot-arms-race-idUKKCN1BT1XN
Already, drones are able to fly themselves independently so they can stay airborne if they lose touch with human pilots. Soon they may be able to make their own tactical decisions. At Georgia Tech in the United States this summer, researchers programmed swarms of light drones to fight their own aerial dogfights. The U.S. military is trying out similar products.
That means one operator could command many, many more drones – or that they might not need direct supervision at all.
Even more important than what is happening in robotics may be the wider developments in artificial intelligence. That won’t make warfare necessarily more deadly – a bomb dropped from a drone is not in itself less lethal than one from a manned aircraft. While it’s possible that greater accuracy might reduce casualties, some analysts fear that the changes brought by new unmanned systems might themselves fuel new conflicts.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-apps-robots-commentary/commentary-the-coming-robot-arms-race-idUKKCN1BT1XN
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