For all the boasts the US’s AI military vendors make, I’m constantly struck by how few real-world achievements they have. They are battlefield tested in Gaza and Lebanon, but to what result? The mass destruction of civilian populations we see there looks exactly like WW2-era warfare. Now they want $445bn extra for more of the same? What a waste.
Meanwhile, with a tiny fraction of the budget & resources, it’s Ukraine that is inventing the future. Drones have already reconfigured 21st-century warfare. Once again, recent events in the Middle East have shown that. Now Ukraine is doing the same with robots.
Some people find the idea of killer robots grim. But I’d rather see robots fight robots than WW2-style mass slaughter of civilians.
Ukrainian robots capture enemy position without troops in historic first, Zelenskyy says
By capture enemy position they mean they rolled them into an area the enemy wasn’t fighting in and said “look we took the position.” This is the same thing they were doing the first two years of the war, taking empty fields, saying they “took the positions from Russia” and then losing thousands of men in the aftermath