Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction
Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction
Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction | Common Dreams
What Republicans are now preparing to do is hand that deadly, violent, invasive culture a targeting algorithm and a fleet of autonomous death-drones. Don't believe me? Keep reading.
This Tuesday, while America was obsessively watching the latest bizarre twists in Trump’s Iran debacle, Whiskey Pete’s Pentagon rolled out a $1.5 trillion budget request that contained a line item almost nobody’s talking about: a 24,000 percent increase, from $225 million last year to $54.6 billion this year, for an outfit called the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group.
That’s the largest year-over-year jump for any program in the entire defense budget, and it’s earmarked to build out AI-driven autonomous human-killing systems inside the Special Operations Command headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.