ImJustHere4theMoons
ImJustHere4theMoons t1_irnbbwo wrote
Reply to Top robot companies pledge not to add weapons to their tech to avoid harm risk | Leading robotics firms promise not to add weapons to general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so by SetMau92
As others have pointed out, the US can simply buy the models they want and hire a sub contractor to install weapons on them. I still appreciate their stance against it but I have doubts that they'll turn down a potential 8-9 figure government contract for ethical reasons.
ImJustHere4theMoons t1_iro23v2 wrote
Reply to comment by FinancialTea4 in Top robot companies pledge not to add weapons to their tech to avoid harm risk | Leading robotics firms promise not to add weapons to general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so by SetMau92
Exactly. When (not if) a company starts pulling in hundreds of millions manufacturing automated weaponry then the rest of the industry will follow their lead or get left behind and bought out by their successful competitors and absorbed into the war machine. There's no way around it. We're marching at a steady pace towards the dystopian future that we all thought was pure fiction. No exaggeration.