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Drone WMDs Don’t Need Any New Technology

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By Felix Choussat, Mordechai Rorvig
| LessWrong (30+ Karma)
This is a piece originally written for a national security audience at Frontiers. Although I think the ceiling of war is much, much higher than autopilot quadcopters, it's also important to understand how much AI is already lifting the floor, and just how vulnerable the world is to accessible weapons of mass destruction. Drones are cheap, disposable, and the future of war.
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Militaries are going autonomous. But will AI lead to new wars? A tour of recent research

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By Mordechai Rorvig
| foommagazine.org
Analysis — 11 min read The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties and provided a sickening laboratory for the development of the technology of war. Since then, major advancements have been made in unmanned drones and more generally, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), defined by the ability to search for and engage targets without a human operator.
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Is research into recursive self-improvement becoming a safety hazard?

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By Mordechai Rorvig
| foommagazine.org
Analysis — 7 min read One of the earliest speculations about machine intelligence was that, because it would be made of much simpler components than biological intelligence, like source code instead of cellular tissues, the machine would have a much easier time modifying itself.
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