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This is what makes me laugh, the claim is that humans will operate the AI when it's shown to devolp it's own way of thinking over time, plus what about other countries, they can do it too and we could have to face that. Already most of our electronics are from China and in the past have been known to inject their own chips into the computer, what about code, who knows.. "Capability Assumptions. Autonomous swarm technology only exists in nascent stages, but to explore the use of swarms in offensive forms of maneuver, we need to make projections regarding their future capabilities.
Future swarm combatants will possess sufficient artificial intelligence to operate semi-autonomously after receiving initial guidance from human operators. Maneuver or fire support swarms should be able to process tasks of the following complexity without human control:
Attack all adult males within a 500-meter radius of given center point until depleted of ammunition. Return to rally point X at that time OR travel to this geographic coordinate, count all individuals possibly identified as adult males for the next four hours, relay that data in real time, then return to coordinate X OR conduct a reconnaissance in force along a pre-determined route, deviations are authorized if the route becomes impassable. Self-defense authorized if engaged."
Future swarm combatants will possess sufficient artificial intelligence to operate semi-autonomously after receiving initial guidance from human operators. Maneuver or fire support swarms should be able to process tasks of the following complexity without human control:
Attack all adult males within a 500-meter radius of given center point until depleted of ammunition. Return to rally point X at that time OR travel to this geographic coordinate, count all individuals possibly identified as adult males for the next four hours, relay that data in real time, then return to coordinate X OR conduct a reconnaissance in force along a pre-determined route, deviations are authorized if the route becomes impassable. Self-defense authorized if engaged."
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The concern about sourcing of hardware and software is a good point. But I think that whatever algorithms the systems develop from learning will take place during development and limits can be placed on the scope of what they can do. Identifying adult males is pretty demanding, but to use an illustrative scenario:
An enemy has set up a BM-27 Uragan Multiple Rocket Launcher next to a functioning hospital. You want to destroy that MRL, but you don't want to harm anyone in that hospital. The enemy knows that and that's why he put it next to the hospital. If you could put a swarm of unmanned systems (actually components of a system) onto that target with insufficient warning for the enemy to get out of the way, then I think you could kill the enemy personnel operating that MRL and then have unused components of the unmanned system then prevent the enemy from attempting to re-man the MRL. (Not sure about LOAC considerations regarding the effect of a FASCAM-like minefield now existing where the enemy casualties have been produced, but as a general concept of how it would work - that's I think a more practical example than attempting to identify adult males. In this case, you could just limit the action of the system components to within 25-50 meters of the center mass of the MRL. No effects would be produced of sufficient magnitude to harm the hospital.)
An enemy has set up a BM-27 Uragan Multiple Rocket Launcher next to a functioning hospital. You want to destroy that MRL, but you don't want to harm anyone in that hospital. The enemy knows that and that's why he put it next to the hospital. If you could put a swarm of unmanned systems (actually components of a system) onto that target with insufficient warning for the enemy to get out of the way, then I think you could kill the enemy personnel operating that MRL and then have unused components of the unmanned system then prevent the enemy from attempting to re-man the MRL. (Not sure about LOAC considerations regarding the effect of a FASCAM-like minefield now existing where the enemy casualties have been produced, but as a general concept of how it would work - that's I think a more practical example than attempting to identify adult males. In this case, you could just limit the action of the system components to within 25-50 meters of the center mass of the MRL. No effects would be produced of sufficient magnitude to harm the hospital.)
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