New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.
Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman
A swarm, a flock, all a seamless combative hive expression of a networked AI, each aspect capable of manoeuvres that would kill a human pilot. Could be the first face of a fascinating idea, and yet a potentially terrifying reality.
What’s that thing I’m always saying about robots and dying and stuff?….
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(Source: Los Angeles Times, via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity-deacti)
