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olalonde ◴[] No.42942797[source]
That feels like PR / virtue signaling. AI has the potential to significantly reduce the human cost of war in two ways: by removing soldiers from direct combat and by enabling precision strikes which minimize collateral damage. Over time, robot-soldiers will surpass human effectiveness, making it increasingly irrational to send people into harm's way. In that world, conflicts would shift toward being decided by technological superiority - who has the better or more advanced systems - rather than by which side has more human lives to sacrifice. We could even see one day wars with no human casualties.
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1. srebastian ◴[] No.42945110[source]
Ah, yes, the "Peace on Earth" future!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)