Some battle-hardened warriors treat remote-controlled devices like brave, loyal, intelligent pets, while others describe them as clumsy, stubborn clods. Either way, observers have interpreted these accounts as unsettling glimpses of a future in which men and women ascribe personalities to artificially intelligent war machines.
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Fully autonomous killer drones are “a logical and inevitable next step”
Drones can already recognize targets such as armored vehicles using cataloged images. But there is disagreement over whether the technology is reliable enough to ensure that the machines don’t err and take the lives of noncombatants.
Source: Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots | AP News
Danielle was a TALON, a remotely operated robot used for reconnaissance in combat, as well as in tough-to-reach terrain like rocky canyons and caves. […] “Our junior guy named it Danielle so he’d have a woman to cuddle with at night.” Sadly, the romance was not to last: “Danielle got blown up,” Connor says.
As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers