I doubt that. Nobody cares about soldiers
@Flame, maybe on an interlectual level we can say that, but in western populest democracies the sight of bodybags in a warehouse, or everysingle day the news carrying an internment, then yes it does matter.Ok so my statment relies on the fact that some part of the media is acctualy going to run the stories, but if the only thing they have to run is "Burnout Hardware", then yes it is easier to stop a war when real soldiers are involved than AI Units.
The rest is snipped. There is really no difference between an AI soldier and a drone in this regard. Nobody is going to care how many drones get destroyed.
I agree, I dont think you should have snipped the bit where I was comparing Cruise Mistlies to AI Units. Let's keep this on a theoretical level too, any more references to an actual war will probably get this thread deleted
I dissagree, we are talking about iteligent/semiIntelligent weapon systems, which no matter how in the future these will look, they exist now in the form of fire and forget or as you said Drone. Looking at there use over resent years is relevent to how we would act differently in the future if the whole war could be fought this way.If the thread therfore gets pulled, then, whoever pulls it, pulls it. But we have these systems now, and my objection of there use atm and in the future, is that populist democries will be more likly to engage in confict.
Part of what stops wars, is the horror that wars inclict, if we can remove those horrors from our side, then we are going to have longer and more wars. Obviously from the replies I recived the first time, somepeople think that soldiers and robots are as expendable as eachother, and from a millitary point of view, I would even argue that a soldier is more expendable. But the way wars are presented to us at the moment, a tank crew dieing is more likly to stop a war than the loss of the Tank.
Computers and humans are not that different other than metal and flesh? Erm... not even dolphins (living creatures) are able to check out differences on games and a battle (water polo trainied dolphins got somewhat nuts while defending).
lol, and this differs from people how?