Robots & Warfare
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Cost of Automated Machine Guns
There really isn't much stopping us from having automated machine guns. It's more that it's not about making the device smart like a person, but rather to make it smart at a specific job and instead have humans trained to use it. The Israeli drone, the smash dragon can mount a sniper rifle and aim accurately though it's a person doing the aiming. We do not want a killbot with human level general intelligence because it's a threat to us, and not likely to be better at its job anyway.
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