Experts warn against autonomous weapons use

A group of the world's leading scientists and tech exerts issued a stark warning about the use of autonomous weapons systems. CNN's Max Foster Reports.

[prophecyrat]

The final kill shot is ‘supposed’ to be conducted by the human element, but if determined “necessary' ' the military will give clearance for drones to kill autonomously.

The UN is against this, but this is why such a thing as “Meaningful Human Control”, has become a major selling point to weapons manufacturers and military nations wishing to utilize these technologies while stille claiming it couldn't be used for genocide. The fact that the machines can kill and have killed autonomously, means there will be more instances of this occurring.

Especially for automatic turret and drone patrol systems, where it's more effective for the machines to create a “kill zone”, and have all humans dedicated to other missions, rather than be stuck watching a screen 24/7.

These advantages determine the outcome of war, of conflicts, using less manpower and more machine power, a cheap and effective means of population control that doesn't need the organic elements of nutrition and rest. The perfect killing machines.
Here is the Official Geneva Briefing Paper for Lethal Autonomous Weapons:
Article 36:

A scholarly article worth a quick skim:
Locating LAWS: Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Epistemic Space, and “Meaningful Human” Control
John Williams
Published: 23 June 2021
I do believe this issue will detrimen the fate of all life on Earth. I think it's no coincidence that “LAWs' ' is spelled out as if they were the' 'Law' ', that machines that hunt and kill humans are also affectionately named “Predator drones' '. It's so ironic that it would be comical if it wasn't actually as tragic as it is.

I have written an essay on this as well. I'll post it here just because it sums up everything I have to say.
Lethal Autonomous Weapons,

Metal Predators


Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) are the terminators of life, because of their General Intelligence, their ability to be mass produced, and their influence on the Arms Race.

Killer Robots do not need “sentience” to be lethal. Generally intelligent devices, like smart phones, can use basic facial recognition, app-tracking, and remote listening technologies, this tech is enough to discriminate based on race, political leanings, and be used to identify protestors and kill humans, like indigenous people, who oppose Industrialization.

Justifications such as the “War on Terror”, excused the execution of over 4, 000 drone strikes [4]. The use of machines to kill in this way has never before been conducted on such an industrial scale, besides during the world wars. Further, the use of different verbiage, like “collateral damage”, or “targets”, are still applied to justify autonomous assassination [4].

Lethal Autonomous Weapons have disproportionately been used to target humans in countries like the Middle East or Africa. This form of neocolonialism is due to the operators of autonomous weapons being from technologically advanced military powers, and their operational ideology defined as “Meaningful Human Control” [5].

The humans that deploy lethal autonomous weapons would be the meaningful humans in control, so those lives being murdered by the LAWs, as collateral or intentionally, would be meaningless [5]. LAWs discriminate against native populations, destroy ecosystem for industrial operations, and establish territories that are controlled by “meaningful human operators”.

Genocides begin by dehumanizing groups of people, likening humans to animals such as rats, roaches, and monkeys. Degradation of humans as “targets”, like in target practice, has skinned humans of any life, by defining life as objects.
Military powers expanding their Lethal Autonomous Weapon Programs would be initiating an Arms race of autonomous killing machines [3].
The war of autonomous machines would be started out of fear of other countries' “first strike”, just like the Nuclear Arms Race. There is no way to stop an “singularity of killing machines” [1].
The world would be a conflagration of propaganda, of how only more killing machines could protect us from more killing machines, almost as it has always been since the dawn of Militarism. Even in the events of Nuclear, Biological, or Chemical Warfare (NBC), LAWs are weapons that can function in toxic environments that organic beings cannot. Autonomous killing machines will remain operational while humanity remains powerless to stop them.

The powers humans do have to control automation of war, is limited to the time before the war of machines. Slaughterbots, is a 2017, film that spread awareness of autonomous killing machines through a graphic and realistic portal of suicide drones, a hand-held drone with enough explosive power to kill humans, by flying into and blowing up vital organs like the head or heart [2]. Such brutal depictions are necessary, the reality of murder machines or “slaughter bots, should be treated with as much severity as any other weapon of mass destruction; instead talk of killing machines is tossed up as nonsense doomsday talk, “killer robots’ paranoia” [2].

Sources that claim that Autonomous Weapons will not be used to kill Civilians, only need to review to the last 100 years of Industrial and modern warfare, where any and all means of annihilation and genocide were intentionally tested and executed upon civilians, from the Nuclear Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Chemical warfare on Vietnam, and the deployment of Predator drones in the Middle East [6].

Sensationalism may not be the best approach, because sensationalism deters “serious talk” of Autonomous Weapons, nevertheless, talk is merely talk, because weapons of war have advanced no matter what protest or ineffectual discussions are made [6].

Knowledge is power, the world knows a threat of Nuclear war is not a threat, because man, woman, and child have been destoyed in Nuclear Holocaust, it’s our reality, and so is the threat of genocide by autonomous weapons, and its proabale this will not be be taken seriously until a national massacre, affecting a world superpower (such as the United States), for any real fear of the LAWs to start to be realized; and at this point it will be too late because the direct action of any military superpower will be an arms race of slaughter machines.

Industrial Genocide by Thermonuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons was impossible until the last 100 years of human history. The 21st is the dawn of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs), they will be used as a Final Solution by the militaries of the world. Targets for Execution, would be prejudiced on race, political views, and necessity to industrial progress.

LAWs will use humans as target practice, their killing efficiency will be mastered, producing metal predators that are perfected for hunting organic life. The use of genocide machines will spark a final suicidal arms race, turning Earth into a metal predators hunting ground.
It can be seen as another“doomsday prophecy”. But then this would be a living prophecy, as common sense dictates that what we, the general public, is probably restricted greatly.

There could be supersonic drones, there could be machines as small as bullets but just as fast. A fully autonomous artillery, fleet of tanks, planes, and warships would be devastating, we can fantasize about humans being able to resist such a force, but remember that the machines can just crop dust us like we were an infestation of insect, effectively poisoning us and all our precious land and food and water.

It's not so farfetch'd anymore, in the horizons of the next world war and those skies are littered with drones. And as always we must come to terms with mortal reality; that these things are just not in out control, as we are pretty much as powerless as we ever have been when it comes down to civilian population resisting an entire military force, but at least before there was a possibility of the humans on the other side having shreds of humanity to intentionally miss, to put down their weapons and stop this genocide.

In a war of attrition with machines they will never cease fire, unless they run out of ammo, and this is why I say that in a war won by machines humanity has lost.


References

[AllAmericanDreamChaser]

Energizer bunny became a killer rabbit?

[h.mushmann]

As with automated cars, even if they make a few mistakes, if they can accomplish their task more effectively than humans, then they are an improvement... /end sarcasm

[TheTrinidad]

The more these so called "geniuses" talk the less intelligent they seem. They watch to many movies

[TheVrevolution]

K well im just going to say it this happens just RPM get in gear man.

[flatsun]

dont we already have gatling guns that use motion detection ect ?