U.S. Army Wants to Replace Soldiers With Robots

[Infernai]

So, we've got Robots being employed by the military now huh?

*sigh*

...I'll go get the new theme for the military:

 

[Vivi22]

On one hand, it is incredibly demoralizing and terrifying to the enemy to fight robots. When the operator gets tired he is simply replaced by another. If you "kill" a robot the other robots won't be psychologically hurt by the experience etc. So yes, it's a good thing in a way.

But it can also be expensive. And the US already spends a lot of money on defense. If they tried to be nice for a change and offer food and things to those poor souls in the Middle East instead of bullets and bombs, maybe they wouldn't hate you so much to want to blow you up. The war on terror creates more terrorists than it deals with. Which is probably the entire point of not just the war on terror, but of these robots. There's a lot of money in war. The industrial military complex wouldn't survive without wars and technologies like these. I can't believe Hideo Kojima of all people predicted the war economy crap 20 years ago.

Agreed on all points. I'm also a bit concerned by the idea of the US being able to wage war without worrying too much about the cost to actual human lives with it's own people in the military, and US citizens. They already do a disturbingly good job of throwing away American lives for bad reasons. What happens when they're just throwing away robots?

And the biggest problem with this idea is that wars these days, and likely in the foreseeable future, are not going to be won through fighting, nor will the difference between enemy and civilian likely ever be clear again. If you want to end violence in places like the middle east, it's going to be through aid, and connecting on a human level. Robots will never be able to do that, and would actively work against that.