The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media

[Fast Walker 52]

The DOD is freaking out of control. This is fucking insanity.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-pentagon-is-building-a-self-aware-killer-robot-army-fueled-by-social-media-bd1b55944298#.ezqxg5mtr

"Official US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram"

[jberryhill]

1. Lol, it'll end up like the Microsoft chatbot

Which the Internet turned into a Nazi within hours.

[JonathanRackham]

2. We're screwed.

[Kaleva]

3. When the robot army unfriends you, you are done for good.

[Buzz Clik]

4. I hope he doesn't go completely apeshit and attack the Tweeting Orange Moron

[Fast Walker 52]

12. that might be the one good thing it would do

[Archae]

5. Source is a conspiracy website.

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence

"Defence industry poised for billion dollar profits from global riot ‘contagion’"

"Forecasts of relentless civil unrest in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia seen as massive ‘investment opportunity’"

I'd like to see this from a more credible source.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. if you read the piece, it is well sourced

and seriously, do you put this kind of kookiness past Pentagon planners?

[uhnope]

18. "truthiness"

[packman]

6. Someone has been watching too many Terminator movies

[Egnever]

7. The doc does not say anything of the sort.

Here is the doc they are basing this bullshit article on.
http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/resources/NDIA_Human_Systems_Conference_2016_HSCOI_DistroA_FINAL.pdf

It is definitely about improving human and machine interaction. But no where does it say anything close to

autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram

In fact the parts about antonymous systems and social media are completely different portions of the document. The social media portion is on building machines that can recognize force movements based on social media posts.

[Fast Walker 52]

14. you read the whole thing?

I think the inference is reasonable:

"The project was touted by Agarwal as a great success: it managed to extract 635 identity markers through metadata from the blog network, including 65 email addresses, 3 “persons”, and 67 phone numbers.
This is the same sort of metadata that is routinely used to help identify human targets for drone strikes — the vast majority of whom are not terrorists, but civilians.
Agarwal’s conference slides list three Pentagon-funded tools that his team created for this sort of social media analysis: Blogtracker, Scraawl, and Focal Structures Analysis.
Flagging up an Egyptian democracy activist like Maikel Nabil as a hostile entity promoting anti-NATO and anti-US propaganda demonstrates that when such automated AI tools are applied to war theatres in complex environments (think Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen), the potential to identify individuals or groups critical of US policy as terrorism threats is all too real.
This case demonstrates how deeply flawed the Pentagon’s automation ambitions really are. Even with the final input of independent human expert analysts, entirely peaceful pro-democracy campaigners who oppose war are relegated by NATO to the status of potential national security threats requiring further surveillance."

[Egnever]

15. The "whole thing" is a bunch of slides

and none of what you just posted was in it. The link is there look at it yourself.

[uhnope]

19. Never try to talk down a CTer using glaring facts and obvious truth

it will get you nowhere & you'll become a part of the evil conspiracy

[Thor_MN]

8. They are coming for your prescription drugs..

I wonder if they sell robot insurance?

[sl8]

9. Old Glory has a $4/month robot policy:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insurance/n10766

[Scootaloo]

10. So... basically it's like...

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

11. I guess they didn't watch Avengers: The Age of Ultron

[Fast Walker 52]

16. Ha!

[Adrahil]

17. As someone who works on autonomous systems, some for the DoD....

i can tell you this is bullshit.

I have no doubt DARPA is researching all kinds of stuff, but as of right now, there is no active development on any system that that could identify and attack a target sutonomously. We're still dealing with basic issues liek sense and avoid, constructive missions with manned systems (such as safe passage through civilian airspace), and simple procedures.

The idea that wee're dveliping the Terminator is fantasy. The tech is not even close their, even if we wanted to do so.