@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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@dymaxion @wonka @graydon @dr2chase @cstross
passively limited to an initially set kill box.
Homing torpedoes, in contrast, need navigation capabilities to be able to use a kill box. But the idea is quintessentially the same as a mine field - the torpedo will try to kill anything it finds in the kill box (possibly with additional sensor profile parameters), but it will NOT try to kill something outside the kill box.
This system isn't perfect, but it's a starting point.
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