Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST

[link] - A ycombinator company just killed its first bug: [link] Ukraine admits to making autonomous kills on people 2 years ago: [link] Slaughterbots Sci Fi short was 6 years ago: ▶ this video Today this is buildable, many models will happily help you glue everything you need together to make swapping in a new version of YOLO to track humans viable. AI researches are out there worrying about the paper clip problem, about the singularity, about cyber security, about bio weapons, and drug manufacturing. None of them are thinking about forward looking threat actor models.

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I don't see bipedal murderbots being commonplace - they're a lot slower than 4-legged "Big Dogs". I think that the Ukraine war has shown that "slaughterbots" are far more likely. ▶ this video

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As a libertarian I also dislike the "crabs in a bucket" mentality people have towards inequality because it is clearly motivated by jealousy, but the massive amount of inequality we see today seems to undermine some of the assumptions behind democracy. I think the reason why the social contract of democracy evolves from natural law is that the basic assumption is that we all have about the same fighting power, and voting is representative of this. This assumption does not hold when some minorities have 1000x the economic power but 1x times the voting power: the majority of people will vote to redistribute wealth, while the rich will be motivated to destabilize the peace and take advantage of their disproportionate fighting power directly (killbots? [1]). Additionally, special interest groups will lobby to protect their cash cows. An increasing amount of the economy flows through government expenditure (including tax incentives, nationalization, etc.), for example palantir, flock, openAI and others. We live in an increasingly planned economy. In the USA, we import pretty much everything and we only build for the military and real estate. The state of inequality is also concerning considering the recent technological improvements that threaten to totally devalue all labor. There's this notion that the lives of the 1% don't matter as long as we raise the standard of living for the lower class as you suggest, but what is happening now is more like a doomsday situation where we ar

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> 30 milligrams of high explosive is enough to open your daughter's skull, or, more relevantly, your commanding officer's daughter's skull, and there are a thousand ways to deliver it While we are talking about flying drones, we are not far off from Slaughterbots becoming reality.[0] Why bother with surgical assassinations if you can blanket entire regions with with swarms of autonomous seek-and-destroy explosives? After all, as last two years have so amply demonstrated: people are fine with genocide. 0: ▶ this video

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I dont think LLMs are the only type of AI. By the way, robot dogs now have perfect auto-aim, they can multi-shoot 50 people at once without wasting any bullets. [link] Also, the AI robots can detect infrared and heartbeats all around them, and can also translate wifi signatures to locate humans behind obstacles. [link] Self-organizing deadly drone swarms can sweep a building methodically: [link] Currently they’re working on network analysis to help police to do precrime at Palantir. [link] They can then have ubiquitous CCTV+AI feeds allow AI assistants to suggest many plausible parallel construction cases to put people away. And this is in the Western democratic countries. [link] Oh yeah, and they can do warrantles surveillance of everyone at scale with AI far more easily than Five Eyes and PRISM did in 2013: [link] It will be very hard to keep your privacy considering AI can recover your keystrokes from sound in Zoom calls, can lip read and even “hear” your speech through a window thanks to micro vibrations: [link] Not like they’ll need it though once everyone has a TeslaBot in their house. You won’t ever have another revolution again by peniless plebs out of a job. Their walking around the street and personal associations will all be tracked easily by gait, heartbeat etc. Their posts online will simply be outcompeted by AI bot swarms as well. Don’t worry, your future is Safe and Secure from any threats, thanks to AI! Here it is in more totalitarian countries: [link] [link]

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Reminiscent of the tiny autonomous drones with shaped charges that could kill people in Slaughterbots. ▶ this video

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That cat has been out of the bag for at least seven years. The Slaughterbots video was for arms-control advocacy[0,1], but definitely speedrunning near-real dystopias way more than anything here... [0] [link] [1] ▶ this video

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I was watching a video about Red Bull's new drone that can keep up with a F1 car and the whole time I kept getting Slaughterbot vibes. Zero to 185mph in 4 seconds with a top speed of 215mph, relatively cheap components, multiple cameras, and decent onboard computing power. I am not looking forward to the future of warfare. [link] ▶ this video

in “Robots Are Entering the Ukraine Battlefield” · View on HN

> The US carrier group may even adequately suppress the Houthis but this is attrition and Houthi investment is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost to the US. Between this, Ukraine, and the decades-long misadventures in the Middle East, the US is learning how to handle the next generation of conflicts. (As is everyone else that is paying attention.) The future looks increasingly more drone dependent. Explosives tied to cheap and plentiful delivery systems. Startups like Anduril are going to take over. Submarine drones, jet-powered drones, assassin drones. Signals intelligence and radio algorithms... This is old, and a bit too Black Mirror, but seems to be tracking the future of conflict correctly: ▶ this video

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The paperclip optimizer is given a program and is not aligned with humans, it just pursues its goals What you should all be fearing is bot swarms and drone swarms becoming cheap and decentralized at scale online and in the real world. They can be deployed by anyone for any purpose, wreaking havoc everywhere. Every single one of our systems relies on the inefficiency of an attacker. It won’t any longer be true. Look up scenes like: ▶ this video [link] And see it coming: [link] Also ubiquitous cameras enable tracking everyone across every place, as soon as the databases are linked: [link]

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“Only a net can help. And I predict that soon we will have to put up such nets above our cities, or at least government buildings, all over Europe.” That’s quite some food for thought, especially in a non-war context. Reminds me about the short film “Slaughterbots” [1] and that one Black Mirror episode with the weaponized robotic bees. [1] ▶ this video

in “The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank” · View on HN

>>Can anyone shed light on what the weapons would be? I guess you haven't heard of AI slaughter bots. ▶ this video

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The military always claims they will have a human 'in the loop' to make kill decisions. That promise will go out the window just as soon as other nations arm ai enabled drones with anti air missiles. There's no time for 'human in the loop' when the first to act survives. Thus down the slippery slope we go. In 20 years time we'll probably have aircraft that do figure eights over enemy territory for hours before automatically engaging 'military aged males'. Slaughter bots is the ultimate conclusion to this: ▶ this video

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Reminds me of this short film: ▶ this video Just like this, it's scary because it is believable. FWIW, here's the real military using Boston Dynamics: [link] And here's a remote controlled sniper rifle: [link] So I would be very surprised if nobody had combined them yet. In that sense, I think it is very good that MSCHF is bringing more attention to it. The sooner we start talking about laws to govern this tech, the lower the chance of it ending up in the wrong hands.

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