@wonka
Not having effective iff or visual human confirmation means you turn your semi-autonomous munitions into fratecide machines.
Shockingly, there are reasons for many of these laws and reasons why states signed them that don't have anything to do with human rights, too.
@graydon @dr2chase @cstross @isaackuo
@dymaxion @wonka @graydon @dr2chase @cstross
Yeah, I didn't want to get into the legal and ethical considerations, since there are practical reasons to consider that I felt like diving into.
Now, the thing is ... we don't have to just speculate on autonomous munition fratricide machines. We've had them for some time in the forms of mines and homing torpedoes. And these are still relevant as the heavy use in Ukraine shows.
Basically, it's about defining a kill box. Mines are, of course
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