I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.
If one doesn’t want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.
In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.
And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don’t support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.
I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).
But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.
If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).
And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).
I strongly disagree with this framing.
I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.
If one doesn’t want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.
In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.
And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don’t support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.
I don’t fear Zuckerberg using this technology, I fear the government using this technology.
Everyone should. Autonomous weapons are not good for people.
Today this technology is used to fight your enemy, tomorrow it WILL be used to fight YOU.
You cannot prevent this with “dealing with the oligarchs”, this technology simply has to disappear.
I am not naive enough to think it won’t (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).
But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we’ll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.
If one wants this technology to “disappear” [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).
And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a “regional issue” back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).
There is a non-zero chance that this person won’t live long enough to see that scary tomorrow due to scary today that requires this technology.