Slaughterbots

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[@TheFroschkind]

The way he casually talks about an autonomous weapon capable of killing an entire city based on individual facial recognition while being cheered at by the crowd makes it almost satirical to watch, this whole thing just seems so evil.

[@nobodybw1962]

Agreed. There is no way that this would be met with such a gungho attitude. Hell, this CEO would be crucified for simply mentioning they fire real bullets

[@bonitabromeliads]

Have you never watched an actual weapons demonstration before?

[@amandadavis3048]

This is why the 6’ foot distancing. It assists in facial recognition.

[@wiros8101]

JFK'S secret societies speech is surreal.

[@ashwinramaswamy4059]

@@amandadavis3048 nice tinfoil hat

[@cryhavoc9748]

I was expecting it to blow the speaker's head off. Kind of like the scene in "RoboCop", that certainly would have impressed the audience.

[@bonitabromeliads]

Ya I wanted everyone at the conference to be killed while some terrorists hijack the whole company to control all the bots.

[@mindsoulpower]

that would be the only thing i would have enjoyed about the vid..

[@ericblowtorch]

Salient quote: "Now trust me: these were all bad guys."

[@leobeaulieu520]

now 3 yrs

[@MichaelFarrand]

The CEO (character) is so good in this. "Trust me these are all bad guys" and none of them is holding a gun.

[@connorfee9593]

Maybe they just did a rape. Don’t need no gun for that

[@Aylon5D]

@@connorfee9593 And that would be a justification for murder?

[@connorfee9593]

But holding a gun is? Also no ones trying to justify murder here. Chill man it’s just a video

[@connorfee9593]

Aylon5D perhaps your videos are better?

[@BenStokman]

Also gives no chance at surrender.

[@akazlev]

This would have to be the most terrifying scifi short I have ever seen. What makes it so scary is the realism; the danger is nothing to do with fantasies of Skynet or the Matrix, and everything about human misuse of advanced technology (specifically here insectbot AI.)

[@LutraLovegood]

Still more worried about grey goo, because all it takes is an accident.

[@uiytt8497]

@@LutraLovegood That's the most probably way we're ALL going to die

[@MrKabanchik]

But this is all, all progress and this incredible machine - civilization. Made by monkeys driven by the desire to eat and reproduce, and endowed with the ability to learn. This whole superstructure is capable of literally rolling mountains, but it has no goals. We have nowhere to direct all these energies except to ourselves: to wars and to appeasement/consumption. And most importantly, this animal, small part of us is the basis of the movement of humanity, and if it is removed, the whole structure will collapse, if we reject it and get rid of it, we will become machines, monsters without feelings and emotions. This is not comparable, it will lead humanity to destruction: either in the literal sense, or we will evolve so much that we will be able to replace deep goals with something more, something that we cannot understand now because of our own primitiveness. One way or another, that epoch of our species is vicious and self-destructive, it is doomed and all that remains for us is to agonizingly put ourselves in the furnace of life, mercilessly grinding everything in its path.

[@H4hT53]

Just FYI: The old guy at the end literally wrote THE book on AI.

[@Belioyt]

Stuart Russell

[@i-project866]

He's one of the most recognized Professors in AI Worldwide from CA University -Berkeley

[@25852Dan]

This looks like it could be a black mirror episode.

[@shimmySlime]

25852Dan this already is an episode lol

[@25852Dan]

Yeah it reminds me of the bees haha

[@Miskinello]

The episod "Metalhead" is basically this video but with robotdogs instead of drones.

[@notsureiL]

Metalhead was based on Boston dynamics robot dogs. Drone bees is based on the episode hated in the nation. Last episode of the third season.

[@liiamra5620]

THROW YOUR TV AWAY!

[@artman40]

For anyone who says that EMP will solve it...well, EMP countermeasures have massive collateral damage of its own and can wipe out large parts of infrastructure. EMP itself can also be used as a weapon.

[@_Circus_Clapped_]

duh, Microwave the drones, drones can't detect radio interference, and it can't react to such invisible threats unless they decided to go bankrupt or forgo the size for increased protection against such interference

[@zoidMonkey]

If this became a reality (which I cant see how we'd avoid it with it being so cheap/already viable) we'd need anti-drone drones that target any drone that doesn't have locally issued (and very secure) IFF transponder (Identification Friend or Foe). Similar to the "aerostatic defensive micromachines" written about in the Neil Stephensons book "The diamond age"

[@benbraceletspurple9108]

Or just, balloons with fishing line.

[@samirzemmouri7219]

Another great idea are emps

[@Snipergoat1]

Or a large fan, or a still breeze, or a bit of rain, or a fucking flyswatter. Lert's face it, even if they put one of these together it would suck.

[@arda213]

How are you going to know when to launch them? Will they fly 7/24? Are you aware how unfeasable that is?

[@definitelynotcharlie4001]

Ah yes fight the bad drones with the good drones, perfectly good idea lol

[@leebest1a470]

If just one government or group chooses to develop these then doesn’t matter how many others choose not to.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

Too late, it's already been done for years now. Probably long before this video was uploaded even.

[@benedictcumberbatch4275]

Scary

[@robin50150]

Why would they do that ?

[@blaisekern]

@@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity The problem is, right now with materials I have in my house, I could make one of these. This was four years ago, now Lego sells a lego drone that is the same size. How easy would it be to replace the legos with shaped 💣?

[@LutraLovegood]

@@blaisekern Lego doesn't sell flying drones. The motors they make can't even fly with the best Lego blades available.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

As of yesterday, the U.S. just opted out of a U.N. agreement to ban automated killing machines. This short film is already becoming a reality. What a shitty world we live in, eh?

[@jamesmcckoy8721]

I'mma wear two helmets wherever I go now

[@omnianti0]

dircct eye sight is prohibited nowday only remote camera behind inch of kevlar

[@kevincrady2831]

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... ***Facial recognition software activated. Sarah Connor identified.*** bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp--BAM! Roll credits. Welp, that sure was a short movie.

[@auronius7332]

Better than genisys!

[@PaulyM856]

That'll be $32.50.

[@jidealaga8434]

Is this black mirror?

[@lexparsimoniae2107]

Black mirror covered the subject much better than this though.

[@aesircorporation1924]

+Lex Parsimoniae What's the name of the episode?

[@lexparsimoniae2107]

It was the last episode of the 3rd season, "Hated in the Nation".

[@camiladiaz2218]

but is not the same. On Black Mirror the "bad guy" used drones that weren't designed to kill

[@krzysztof8095]

reality - 5 years from now

[@borp6912]

This was made over 2 years ago, think how far the people designing this technology have gotten in that time.

[@zach3096]

Lol technology is 10's of years more advanced than anything let on to the media. They had this a longgg time ago

[@fruitwagon9275]

AFADS are becoming a thing

[@ianmclaughlin4043]

@palerider957 😂😂😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@nemaj.]

Tick tock

[@pilgrim....]

Ancient history 🤖

[@waltermcmain3461]

Too late i already duct taped all the windows and doors... .... ...fuck i need more milk.

[@manyamaman63]

Don't forget the Oreos.

[@Krvavy]

One point O ?

[@argentorangeok6224]

Gotta get the bread and milk! They said slaughterbots!

[@madkandi]

All it takes is one of them to shatter a window and the other to come in and fuck you up fam.

[@acharyza317]

Emil lol

[@shannybwoy]

Balaclava sales just went up!!!

[@garouHH]

Target pattern: "Wears balaclava". After all, those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear, and those who try to hide must be guilty of something.

[@earlseventyseven7960]

What about an Obama halloween mask? Would that work?

[@garouHH]

Sure, until someone reviews the deployment's footage and amends the target pattern.

[@mikes9455]

Only if drone dont assesses your walking style and body parameters (height, width of shoulders etc)

[@DragonoftheRust]

garouHH change to a bandanna then, or a motorcycle helmet. At a certain point, collateral becomes unacceptable. If collateral IS acceptable, why not use a regular bomb, which is much cheaper to make. When your drones are killing anybody who hides their face, operating in cold conditions becomes impossible, so does operating anyplace where hijabs are common. Are you going to accept the death of all the motorcyclists? What about trick or treaters?

[@overengineer7691]

This is the scariest damn thing I've ever seen.

[@m.2891]

Fucking hell.

[@Dom-nn1kg]

Melissa +

[@chrisgaming9567]

EMP devices. You can destroy them with powerful EMP devices. Or just live underwater. Or in space.

[@phoeniximperator]

The CEO looks like a comic book villain. Now all that is missing is the reluctant hero with superpowers.

[@deividoliveirafaria6541]

This is the problem watching too much movies...there is no "super hero" in real life friend.

[@crazyfire9470]

Not all heroes wear capes

[@sarcasmo57]

Relax everyone! It will be months and months before anything like this could happen.

[@lucidanecdote683]

Lol

[@thomaspaine9868]

Hahaha

[@Rid-iculo-us]

this will never happen. people are inherently good. all of them

[@mcsky5834]

Ridiculous lol right,it's like the there is no people with bad intentions.

[@fycbw6550]

Oh yeah might want to check this out. Automatic Target Recognition of Personnel and Vehicles from an Unmanned Aerial System Using Learning Algorithms www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1413823

[@nullone3181]

If it ever gets to this we would probably have to trigger several enormous EMP blasts across the world to survive as a species, in the process destroying most of our circuitry-based technology.

[@sabersroommate8293]

Yup and that would be our own Bronze age collapse.

[@starstorm5338]

@@sabersroommate8293 Maybe something smaller scale such as specifically targeting areas where these bots are produced? But if these get released publically or get into the hand of some terrorists fuck circuit based technology deploy those EMPs asap.

[@LordCoeCoe]

You will kill off more people by doing that. An EMP blast could destroy the machinery that controls nuclear power plants which could lead to a nuclear meltdown and causing nuclear disasters across the globe. A worldwide EMP could create so much chaos that people will kill each other like never before.

[@starstorm5338]

@@LordCoeCoe Well god fucking damn it

[@renaissanceman3264]

@@starstorm5338 It won’t be that bad. Nuclear reactor meltdowns aren’t as bad as nuclear weapons being detonated.

[@perceptionmanagement1731]

Incredible video. A black mirror episode in 7 minutes.

[@nick_brana]

And it was free!

[@bazzztian]

"now trust me, these were all bad guys" the trust is one biiiig part of the issue

[@RobertoArboleda]

I wish this was viral marketing for a movie, I'm worried about the near future 😔

[@allisonmackay3818]

This idea isn't new. "Dune" was written in 1965 (yep, 52 years ago!) and a scene near the beginning features a device similar these in function, sent to kill Paul Atreides in his bedroom. It was RC and not autonomous, but the effect was the same.

[@RobertoArboleda]

Allison Mackay Cool. I have never read Dune, but I always see people making references. I have to check it out.

[@allisonmackay3818]

It's dense, but satisfying. And you'll recognize so many things that have made their way into other SF...

[@jamesdalby943]

Anti-slaughter bot tech = tennis racket and a mosquito nets.

[@VilniusBangers]

because they have propellers

[@w.glennsmith8870]

James Dalby They are complex adaptive systems operating in an arms race scenario. Their raison d'être will always be to overcome obstacles. Only concerted efforts by humans now can stop them from achieving their programmed or learned goals.

[@Shyeena]

James Dalby *Kevlar* net may be needed.

[@theequalizer2007]

W. Glenn Smith or worst: their impromptu goals.

[@therealenzyme1954]

Portable EMP / interference generator

[@jammadamma]

This is extremely well do e and thought provoking. Deserves so many more views!

[@benitollan]

I was sent a small part of this video (up to shortly after the mannequin demonstration) with a "PlayGround" logo through WhatsApp and I totallly bought it (I thought it was an actual presentation). I feel a little ashamed because some details (such as the stereotypically movie-like drone camera interface) should have revealed to me that it was not. But stil... wow. I got scared. Very well done.

[@jesusevangelho3364]

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[@idontneednostinkingchannel6848]

Benito - of course this is "fantasy" for the most part, but its "in their heads" and that's all that's needed (along with unlimited funding which the idiots we have in congress will gladly hand-over) to make it happen. Its up to Darwin..

[@marshutch3931]

It's still predictive programming. We already have these things out there.

[@thomascormier4189]

Very well dRone

[@sharonrichards1627]

Not so sure, there is an actual website. It's from the beginning of the video. stratoenergetics.com. Check it out and get back to us with your thoughts. I only hope YOU are right.

[@williambrennan104]

Countermeasure options that weren't explored here include a mesh helmet around the head, anti-drone drones, and EMP devices (although that last might not be effective if you could fit a Faraday cage in the thing).

[@pierremartin6017]

Isn't it sexy. Fantastic - everybody can be killed and the auditorium is not shocked. Applause.

[@_vyndux_6017]

Method_1 How to become a dictator. Thank you for this idea.

[@ZuluLifesaBeech-]

Ein Tag! 💀🤖

[@EzekielMessenger]

"The bad half of the city .."

[@Boomatic]

the conservatives

[@Crusader1815]

The good half is defined as the "bad half" by the anti-white communist left.

[@_Circus_Clapped_]

I can imagine democrats just casually inputting "racists" and watching it attack themselves lol

[@GeorgesSegundo]

"They can kill half a city. The Bad half of the City" - What if i´m marked as the bad half? - Who is going to choose to what i half i belong?

[@maximix3531]

Some douche who signs the order to kill “discriminately” based literally on what puts you in a certain category. If you’re unlucky to look a certain way you’re out.

[@lukemurley5965]

thats the point

[@Turanic1]

Thanos will

[@Aaron628318]

You ask too many questions. You're in the bad half.

[@Haamre]

"Minority report" - because according to data from Facebook you "might" do something harmful to (someone's) vision of "harmonous" society.

[@emptycrate3050]

And one computer virus and we’re all gonna be gone like those in Horizon Zero Dawn.

[@hessen8888]

Isn't equally advanced AI technology that can for example detect and shoot down drones like these going to be developed at the same time?

[@aesircorporation1924]

Usually whatever sells first is developed faster.

[@SpotTiger]

Henry Jackson And how do you deploy the Protection Drones fast enough? If a car bomb can't be stopped, if a school shooting can't be stopped, how will you stop this? I can fit 8 of those "mother drones" in my trunk. I can fit more in a rented home depot truck. Stop me when I park 500m from my target and throw them into the air. They'll be there in 30 seconds. I can even get my buddy to throw, while I drive. This is the ultimate weapon. It does not destroy infrastructure, it never refuses to work, it doesn't miss, it doesn't kill irrelevant targets, it is small and extremely mobile, it can be deployed in seconds, it doesn't need instructions, it learns and adapts... Every second it gets better, It shares information, every drone instantly knows everything the hundred others know. If those things are used, they become completely irreplaceable terminators.

[@mladen89ftn]

Sure, just take a look at the advances nukes that are able to intercept incomming ICMBs, why, they were developed in parallel, right ?......

[@annon123]

Escalation.

[@ShareeAnneGorman]

Instead of trying to take out individual bots - I think creating a "jamming" or "tech-nullifying" energy field that could act as an ever-present "security system" for the biological body would be the way to go (and create a new industry, I suppose), just as the advanced systems created to protect our brick and mortar homes were invented.

[@MrJustonemorevoice]

Billionaire tech CEO with murder drones : "They CANNOT be stopped" Me : *Puts a 50 cent paper bag over my face*

[@NoeticSystem]

I wish they made an entire TV show out of this. I keep coming back to this because it's Black Mirror-level kickass. The funny thing is, I get the message, too. I totally do. I warned people, like a decade ago, "Hey, everything in a smartphone is basically a cruise missile guidance package. You have a GPS, accelerometer, gyro, basically everything you need for GPS/INS navigation, all in a chip instead of big heavy electro-mechanical components. What's to keep terrorist nutcases from building self-guiding, deniable, mini-cruise-missiles and attacking politicians and heads of state with them?" Everything in this vid here is doable, from the machine vision with facial recognition, to the little drones with the micro-EFPs in them that kamikaze into somebody's head and explode, putting a copper projectile through their brain. All of that is technologically doable. And that should scare the shit out of people.

[@dimitrireinhart]

well if I remember correctly, GPS and similar systems cap the speed at which it functions, so you couldnt create a ballistic missile.... a slow flying drone on the other hand eh :S

[@sharlenemusiclover3486]

#nowsubmitting #CISFFF2020 @infinitepfilms 🎙️🎞️👽🏆

[@newstart49]

Well, those tin foil hats are looking pretty good right now aren't they?

[@technicalmachine1671]

Yeah, tin foil will stop them

[@billderinbaja3883]

I painted mine black so it's doing double duty now.

[@coded8527]

That guy in the end is litterally the guy who wrote THE book on AI

[@zacscalafini6545]

A person in a tin foil hat could have very well caused the fictional attack on the senate in this video, causing paranoia in the first place.

[@pilgrim....]

It's only paranoia when when the threat isn't real

[@user-tz2mc3sy2e]

Yes, they can be stopped. They are powered by micro lithium batteries, which can be blown up by microwave broad band transmission at up to a mile away, powered by a large magnetron maser; built w/ a magnetron from a commercial microwave oven & the correct wave guide. The Russian military already has such devices developed as coutermeasure against micro drones.

[@Morrigi192]

As does the US. Defensive laser systems are also being developed.

[@endorsedbryce]

and If you these get used for assassination as shown here. Do we now have to live our whole lives within range of one of these systems?

[@WaspCameraInSpringfield]

+EndorsedBryce If you're prepared to suspend your disbelief for this video suggesting that high-end military equipment can be easily obtained and reprogrammed by random terrorists, then sure why not?

[@endorsedbryce]

Likely not terrorist, but cooperate big wigs and others with money and agendas as this video implies. these people already own the industrial military complex already so they can get whatever they want. and it's not like it's even news for high grade weapon to end up in the hands of 3rd world insurgents either. So if you think this requires suspension of disable i'd say you may have a delusion to reality.

[@marcoconsorti2663]

@@WaspCameraInSpringfield Wait that DOES happen? Almost like there ARE corporations that will stop on nothing to gain controll over anything, is it a "big evil corporation" that can hire a sniper to shoot a couple of rounds in the middle of a town riddled with protesters and get a country to revolt and install an anti russian state(looking at you ukraine)? Or is it not plausible? What if you get a cleaner faster and more secure way to do this? After all a sniper can talk, but a kamikaze? Can he talk after he's dead? What about after they obtained controll, can't you just use them in different times to quell dissenters (and I dont mean the very dangerous route of "kill everyone" that is shown in the video, but a tension strategy)?

[@FunBotan]

Came to revisit this masterpiece a couple years later, found it removed from all of my playlists and unlisted from youtube search. Makes ya think.

[@pilgrim....]

Just seen a clip on a doom and gloom documentary BBC 1 mainstream and primetime . Which is good right ?

[@djnc2110]

Pure evil

[@blackpill4984]

Unless this is used against Communists, then it's a great idea. I will start a net company and get rich boooooi.

[@sirachman]

Those can't be mass produced, then released in the thousands to autonomously target any group of people based on race, sex, politics, or facial recognition matched with social media activity. The autonomy of weapons is the danger, as when made small and cheaply they can cause massive destruction.

[@homespunware6315]

+Muquawia Shaniqwa - You are not only a racist, but an absolute idiot! It is not these science-fiction Autonomous Weapons we need to worry about - they’re not even real. But what is real are all the gullible racist halfwits like you. You are so pathetically feebleminded that you’ve actually shaped your bigoted ideologies based on a fictional film production. It is people like you - who exist now - that are the true danger, and will later force us to go ahead and develop such weapons to selectively eradicate such stupidity. In other words, it is your own racism that will eventually bring this upon yourself.

[@djnc2110]

Dog of War could very well be but I’m not really worried either way

[@jshanker2005]

"Pure evil" is decapitation with a blunt instrument.

[@bronysimpson3250]

I clicked this video after watching the killbots introduction scene from Chopping Mall. it's hard to believe that a lot of the sci fi we've seen in movies are now becoming a reality, and not in a good way.

[@OGSurferz]

The worst problem with anything like this, AI, autonomous killers, or any tech, is that if one doesn't do it, the other will, and no amount of banning, legislation etc. will stop someone from using it for evil purposes, at which point the only option for defending against it is to also have it available to you.

[@pilgrim....]

When you wish you could put the genie back in the bottle 😈

[@OGSurferz]

@@pilgrim.... its not too late now, if we were to establish international laws against it. But who would enforce it? And what if someone did it anyway...

[@pilgrim....]

@@OGSurferz I already see A.I.being used to allegedly stop crime before it happens so criminalizing people and sending them for 're'education' . I comfort myself thinking it'll never happen here but I know if the government could do it they would. I live in the most serveiled country I can't pick my nose without being recorded from half a dozen cameras. Yet the only crimes that are noticed are traffic related never catching a murderer or making people feel safe. Anyway I keep hoping for the best and stay vigilant.

[@MrKabanchik]

But this is all, all progress and this incredible machine - civilization. Made by monkeys driven by the desire to eat and reproduce, and endowed with the ability to learn. This whole superstructure is capable of literally rolling mountains, but it has no goals. We have nowhere to direct all these energies except to ourselves: to wars and to appeasement/consumption. And most importantly, this animal, small part of us is the basis of the movement of humanity, and if it is removed, the whole structure will collapse, if we reject it and get rid of it, we will become machines, monsters without feelings and emotions. This is not comparable, it will lead humanity to destruction: either in the literal sense, or we will evolve so much that we will be able to replace deep goals with something more, something that we cannot understand now because of our own primitiveness. One way or another, that epoch of our species is vicious and self-destructive, it is doomed and all that remains for us is to agonizingly put ourselves in the furnace of life, mercilessly grinding everything in its path.

[@Prog4Prog]

Give me one of those and a factory of bubble wrap and I’m set for life

[@pilgrim....]

3yrs later. A.I. is Americas new Manhattan project. This video is so plausible it's scary.

[@eugenekoshanof7328]

"It can take down half the city population, the bad half" - you see the problem with it?

[@Kristoffceyssens]

white men...

[@lonewolf2156]

Yep... Question is what do they call good, what do they call bad?

Nope, just racists, although there are not that many.

[@mycenaeangal9312]

that's kinda the point. this is a satire (in the clasic sense not the ha ha sense)

[@mzmadmike]

Yes. It assumes only half a city's population is bad.

[@tmcleanful]

Of course this hasn't appeared on KZbin's trending page. LOL

[@ZombieSexmachine]

tmcleanful youtube is a joke

[@TheGhettoChameleon]

Keith Erickson currently there should be no way to integrate the processing power needed for this kind of AI into this size of drone, so you should be fine with some RF kill lol

[@TheGhettoChameleon]

Yes, that is what i meant, couldn't think of the correct word as a german at that time of day^^

[@nick_brana]

It's not for you and I to decide who the robots kill. The grown ups at at google and MIC make those choices for us :)

[@DadSkool]

They cant be stopped, except with a butterfly net :D

[@DavidKnowles0]

No one drone attacks the butterfly net, destroying it. The rest complete the mission.

[@DadSkool]

@@DavidKnowles0 you right, there is no stopping these. Also without a major military breakthrough since ww2, it is obvious there must be some major hidden tech we will only see in ww3, the big military countries like USA, Russia, Chinese etc must have some really scary weapons. Thes drones, i could make in my garage if given enough money. Thats the most scary thing about these things

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

Or a can of spray paint blocking the cameras

[@timoteejii]

These can be detected quite easily and be stopped with nets covering houses or with a swarm of "anti-drone drones", but what if they were equipped with nerve gas?

[@imnotmike]

The question is - do we really have the ability to stop this? The scientists who developed the A-bomb didn't want to do it. They did it because they didn't have a choice. They knew that if they didn't do it, someone else would do it first. It was never a matter of whether the weapon would be created. It was just a matter of who would have it first.

[@BelRiose2000]

This might be the Great Filter.

[@BodhiPolitic]

@@BelRiose2000 The real Great Filter is narcissism and psychopathy and the inability of our species to defend against those traits instead of collectively rewarding them.

[@lylebaierlein419]

I can't even begin to explain the MANY reasons you are wrong. Everyone who was involved in the Manhattan project absolutely wanted to see what they could do! Half of them were Nazi defectors! C'mon man!

[@blaisekern]

@@BelRiose2000 I think it probably is, that's why we have to try so hard to save ourselves from it. I think humans get surpass the great filter, but they need to make some extreme decisions to do so. If we can't stop people from creating killer AI, we have to create the antithesis. Maybe that's what I will do with my life.

[@donaldhobson8873]

We can try differential technological development. We can slow it down so we develop some other tech, like genetically engineered superbugs, first.

[@RSKmemes]

This is scary.

[@flashingsword]

We dont want this or anything like it.

[@5000mahmud]

too late

[@urmo345]

There are weapons against so called slaughterbots. In fact many of them. Starting of directed EMP and ending with defensive drones. It ends with drone wars anyway.

[@deividoliveirafaria6541]

Not realy that simple....

[@jasperrutherford2665]

@@deividoliveirafaria6541 Why not?

[@mk-pn2rk]

@@user-yl7kl7sl1g EMP does not hurt people. EM shielding is too heavy to contemplate, it would make these things way too heavy to be useful. Components resistant (mind you, not impervious) to EMP (such as vacuum tubes) are also heavy and inefficient. And these things need an antenna to operate, so that's necessarily one component that always needs to be exposed and the transceiver will easily be damaged by EMP. The only problem is that we have no means of generating EMP strong enough other than nuclear explosions.

[@techvision7038]

@@mk-pn2rk Wouldn't an EMP takeout parts of data structures which would inherently take down the entire financial system if targeted at a certain geographic position? Do EMP have selective destruction or does it take out every machine (lets say machines in banks with data).

[@mk-pn2rk]

@@techvision7038 The way I understand it, EMP causes electric potential to build up in exposed circuits and because of its power, EM shielding does not help much, and you can't even use shielding if an antenna is integral to the design. This induced electric potential is a very high negative charge and will travel as electric current through conductors to ground or any volume with higher potential connected with conductors. The current is high enough to knock out electronic components in its way. Since these drones necessarily use sensitive low power electronics and absolutely require an antenna to function, an EMP will likely destroy all drones' electronic circuits in its area of effect. The small proportion that are not destroyed outright will be incapacitated by having their radios destroyed.

[@pandoraskeyboard]

This should be made into a full movie, cool concept.

[@phiberoptick]

Once AI crosses the Rubicon, there is no turning back.

[@phiberoptick]

I'm not talking about this video, I am talking about bayesian, heuristic, 1n search, greedy search, types of a.i. that currently pose not much of a real threat. in the future however it is a reality that they could be used as weapons.

[@jasonmunro9264]

This may be a fictional video, but the reality of this is scary and should be a warning to us all that this could very well happen in the not so distant future.

[@VD913]

I can guarantee Amazon already has a fleet of these things ready to go when the need arises.

[@gorbulas]

Those tings are no match for a bit of wind

[@demeaningplebny1363]

Look forward to the upcoming debut of my latest new product, the Bean Burrito Holster.

[@elgoog-the-third]

You'd be surprised how robust even small high-end drones are these days.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

+elgoog nah, teeny drones still suck ass in heavy wind.

[@Cat-ct9hn]

Void of Space and Time Nope, if you have the right design and powerful motors you‘ll resist heavy winds.

[@salaciousBastard]

So now all you have to do is invent gale force wind summoning magic and you're safe and sound.

[@jensenex9270]

5-10 years later this will be implemented against the citizens, and when ppl gets angry about this, We already warn them years ago, but they say its good. So there, good for u

[@iddddaduncan]

it's so heartwarming to see how mankind uses all this great technology,maybe some day we can use all these great minds to cure cancer instead of killing each other.

[@LloxieFox]

This near-8-minute video on KZbin is scarier than any movie I've ever seen, precisely BECAUSE of its realism.

[@MichaelALoberg]

No doubt someone somewhere has already built this and is fine tuning the manufacturing process. Saying "Let's agree not to build this" just means that the people who are building these get more of a head start.

[@artman40]

Prisoner's dilemma?

[@RoVirus]

The focus shouldn't be on developing the weapon but countermeasures instead.

[@kalifadiajojoba3022]

Excellent. I see work like this and I am restored to the belief that at least some of us have managed to keep thinking.

[@YashKMusic]

We can choose to use this autonomous AI technology for good causes, like delivering food packets during natural disasters. But sadly, warfare will be the first mover, as always :/

[@garydabelza]

Yash Kshirsagar war is business. As always.

[@MagicSquid]

I hate to break it to you, but war is all that has ever mattered.

[@somedudetm2743]

It's better to send Robots to kill robots than People to kill People.

[@theshermantanker7043]

+Quarantine Enforcement Unit that isnt what humans are interested in doing. Of it was just robot vs robot in wars, fuck yeah i'll go for it! The countries arnt interested in doing that, they're just inventing new ways to kill more people more easily

[@jacobstaten2366]

Yash Kshirsagar well, you know dynamite and all that. Deepfakes can be great for comedy and making movies, but we'll end up with slander and creepy porn.

[@8749236]

Target #everyone. But problem is, if one is developing it, other superpowers have no choice but to develop their own, too; because, just like nukes, not having it is a huge disadvantage. So decision makers have two options: 1. Lets not build it! - Terrible idea, left the country defenseless or deterrent incapable. 2. Lets build it because others are building it! - Even worse idea, more deadly than nuclear holocaust. There is no 3rd option.

[@Remer714]

But like Mutual Assured Destruction, both will not be used then. Why risk your own life and have taken out yourself just to take someone else out? Not worth it.

[@rakatumu]

@@Remer714 Not on other states, but they can use it on their own people.

[@8749236]

@@Remer714 The problem is, this technology requires 3 pieces of consumer grade parts; when combined they become lethal weapon. 1. Commercially available drone (already exists, non restricted) 2. Easily accessible AI training software (close enough, non restricted) 3. Explosives; or pellet with high pressure air and gas generator if explosives are hard to obtain (already exists, non restricted) The current, real and only missing piece is training AI to fly a drone into a target. The result will be a DIY slaughter bot, it can attack at any time, any place at any moment; almost indistinguishable from other civilian drone (since they use literally the same hardware) and still being more lethal and stealthy than conventional firearms.

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Military almost definitely already working on this. You might choose to agree not to use them, but it's impossible that you wouldn't build them.

[@eeyuup]

3 years later and a robotics company already showed a robotic dog with an integrated sniper rifle. You know, for "good"!

[@eyoutube1]

We may stop it in this country but we can't in others. It's inevitable.

[@universa1so1dier]

The theoretical threat is real, but the 'slaughterbot' video is great science fiction. Reasons why we should NOT be concerned about mini-UAVs are (1) Energy density, and (2) connectivity. The problem of sufficient energy density of batteries or even chemical sources is extremely limiting. Creations like Georgia Tech's resonant flapping wing Entomopter micro UAV attempted to address this primary issue ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomopter ) To be viable, lethal UAVs will have to be larger. The perceived advantages of a "swarm" is questionable, and except for applications like flocking to, and overwhelming a radar antenna with signal-blocking micro UAVs, the benefits of a swarm is debatable. This is particularly true when one considers how easily high frequency (due to aperture size) intercommunications can be jammed. For that matter, the entire notion of navigation is still usually assumed to be GPS-based. GPS is incredibly easy to defeat by inexpensive means that could protect wide areas or single safe-space buildings (see: gizmodo.com/jamming-gps-signals-is-illegal-dangerous-cheap-and-e-1796778955 ). The past few missions of the International Aerial Robotics Competition have addressed fully autonomous indoor flight that is done apart from any kind of GPS or external active cues (see: www.aerialroboticscompetition.org missions 5-8 ). You need NOT fear 'Slaughterbots' as they are being presented, however, if a clandestine government agency or evil corporation wants to "take you out" with a UAV, they can do so with a submunition as has been done in the Middle East. Those willing to kill certain high value individuals will not think twice about collateral damage (killing innocent bystanders), so the selective targeting of certain students in the 'slaughterbot video' is an unnecessary complication. Someone determined to kill an adversary will kill everyone in the room. Rationale: "too bad for them... they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time-- and why were they associating with designated enemies anyway?" What we need to fear are not the tools of murder, but those perpetrating murder.

[@endorsedbryce]

If you look at the clips here all strikes where carried out in public locations they new their targets would be at. Iv'e seen multiple comments suggesting home defense solutions but home defense won't help if they don't get you at home.

[@Up8Y]

Yeah, I don't see how this could be stopped.

[@Morrigi192]

Defensive laser installations would help, but they'd have to be deployed across entire cities in vast numbers.

[@happyfullfridge]

helmet

[@jerrycooper6961]

The Fifth Trumpet …9They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months. 11They were ruled by a king, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.…

[@jerrycooper6961]

frostek Well said. Put some thought into that, didn't you?

[@PresidentialWinner]

fucking crazy bs. We are talking about man made intelligent robots killing people with synthetic explosives using technology beyond crazy, and this fucking dude is quoting scripture..what a joke!

[@dave-cj5gb]

the shoe fits

[@jerrycooper6961]

PresidentialWinner 35 years ago people thought I was crazy when I told them about the future chip implants and how they wouldn't be able to buy or sell without it. I don't mind being ridiculed. It's validating to me

[@jerrycooper6961]

Offering possibilities. Not prophesying

[@bonitabromeliads]

Everyone will need orbiting mini AI defense drones. You can wear them on your shoulder like a parrot and they will counter explode the drones trying to kiss you. Also a kevlar hemet would be a good idea.

[@Blistio11]

This is like that Black mirror episode!

[@bedbugbear420]

Krešimir Jurilj just started season 4

[@atic7910]

True!

[@BHALT0S]

*hears aerial buzzing noise* Ah that will be my order from Amazon..... opens door... "shiiit"

[@hurgurhurghuthfn]

I was expecting a final twist to the video like the drone accidentally (or purposely) kills the presentator or a swarm of those drones kills some of the audience...

[@kschmadeka]

These are not such a huge threat, Jennifer Lawrence can shoot them all down with arrows and save us.

[@intunderflow]

The most realistic counter compared to the other comments whose solutions include magic EMP's that only affect drones and no other electronics.

[@Randomguy-wd5lw]

@@intunderflow who care about other electronic, when you are under attack?

[@fruitwagon9275]

Or a big EMP

[@noahway13]

They could be built slightly larger and shoot a .22 sized shell thru the brain. No tennis racket or netting would stop that.

[@8749236]

Like bullet landmine

[@eraneran5681]

This is the old model. New models are microscopic, kill without blood, and make it seem like the victim just went to sleep.

[@patrickkraemer8905]

"Trust me these are all bad guys" because I'm from the Government and I'm here to help.

[@Kamfrenchie]

a private company could do this aswell.

[@MotorGoblin]

* Grabbing a fly swatter *

[@ShardoolSatam]

Came to this link/movie as one of the learning requirements for "Big Data, AI, Ethics" course! Mind Blown!

[@DNTMEE]

Counter measures will probably involve directed magnetic pulses to disable swarms of them at once. Also clouds of very fine conductive material to get into vital moving parts and electronics. And, of course, explosive devices which can take out many at once. Heck, it might have been possible to bring down many of those which got into that building by turning on the sprinklers. Even big fans could blow them away from their target. Or other similar devices in reverse, to suck them in to their destruction. Nets can be fired out to cover many at once and bring them down. Better yet, conductive nets that can send high voltage pulses to them to disable as many as possible so they can't break out of the net. Then there would be swarm vs swarm counter measures. Drone killers that come out of the intended target like angry hornets, shooting the attacking drones, or blowing themselves up amongst clusters of them. Maybe even collide with them. Even larger drones that would scoop up numbers of them and destroy or disable them. Many counter measures are no doubt being developed right now such that by the time such things as those shown are a reality (and they are not yet real despite what the conspiracy nuts say) they will already be obsolete.

[@Remer714]

You should be appointed Chief of Drone Defense Measures! :P

[@ilikeceral3]

Even with helmets the thing could still cause serious brain damage.

[@dcculver2]

I'm glad I do not have a mobile network connected device! LOL!!! Great video! I give the production team an A+!!! Meanwhile back in the real world these devices are not available yet!

This is the most frightening thing I have seen, mainly because I know protesting won't stop those who want power at any cost... and there are plenty of people like that in the world.

[@capncake8837]

I know this is fake, but the parts with the “bad guys” and the plane releasing a ton of the bots absolutely horrified me.

[@jack91x]

Isn't there a concern that trying to raise awareness of this will also give people the idea to do it? With the Beaglebone AI, facial recognition is possible in this form factor already. TATP and a resistor as a trigger makes this an easy weekend project.

[@nataliakruschev5078]

Did anyone see the bots flying in a swastika at about 3:00 minutes in?

[@XxXxLEOnARDxXxX]

Natalia Kruschev thanks for hint!

[@RhinoAg]

Boogeyman 😂

[@christos1603]

Natalia Kruschev blitzkrieg move

[@TTMF]

Natalia Kruschev; good catch!!

[@CaspersCave]

@3:03 😲

[@mikhailromanovskii1338]

1:23 - and that's how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.

[@harleywright2835]

Theres a movie called screamers this totally reminded me of it crazy

[@pjaro77]

Exactly. And second similar things are manhacks from Half Life 2.

[@JSolar590]

For those who say that we can develop counter measures to defeat the bots, just remember that it is likely the AI will learn about these defenses and adapt to them. EMP? There are technologies that can shield facilities and what not to EMP blasts. Just be careful about getting complacent with your own superiority because the AI will have you for lunch. They could probably do things we haven't even thought about yet.

[@troys3757]

EMP shielding adds weight to a system due to necessary metallic and dielectric insulation of vulnerable electronic components, down to the wires. Should this tech mature, and EMP countermeasures be developed for it, there will come a point where the shielding needed to adequately harden micro drones like these against EMP countermeasures will weigh the systems down too much for them to be feasible at such a small size due to the reduced flight dynamics imposed by the additional weight (on top of the payload), as well as the cost of individually shielding millions of single-use drones. If you look at drones being used by militaries currently they are almost always on the much larger end of what's available commercially. There is a reason for this and I suspect that what I mentioned has something to do with it. That being said, technology changes and this is just me armchair gaming this out. You're right about being wary of complacency settling in when it comes to reacting to these futire threats.

[@nunca789]

You're right to raise these points. The real problem, however, is human. Richard Weikart's book, The Death of Humanity (2016), lays out in detail the human philosophies that reign today, which have no real problem with using killer bots against individuals or groups that are designated as "less than human" or "have no reason to live" or "worthy of elimination." The worldviews saying that humans have no intrinsic value are on the rise -- they are the source of your real nightmares, not just the tools they will employ.

[@bonkusbot]

What are some of the suggested paths we can take to prevent an AI from targeting a human? We can already teach autonomous drones to target humans, and we use them for things like automated aerial photography that follows (for instance) a skateboarder or surfer. It's not hard to homebrew up a little quadcopter that does everything these drones do, with the possible exception of reliable shaped charges. I don't see how we can put the genie back in the lamp without heavily restricting or outright banning facial recognition databases. Otherwise all you need is a decent quadcopter with a camera, an Arduino with a data connection , less than $50.00 in various little connectors, wires, components, etc, and a payload of some kind of explosive or other weapon. Even if all of the available AI software was hard-coded to follow the Three Laws of Robotics, there's no way for the AI to know the intent behind the peripherals attached to the drone. It could be programmed to verify the identity of a person before sending a PWM signal out of two digital outputs on the Arduino - one (ostensibly) to tell a soundcard to play "happy-birthday.mp3" over a speaker - the other to switch on a solenoid that releases a confetti catapult. No problem there, unless of course you replace the soundcard with an explosive that's set to trigger at the same frequency as the soundcard, or simply replaced the confetti in your cute confetti trebuchet with a neurotoxin or bioweapon. Until every autonomous AI has some kind of advanced awareness and critical thinking that could disable itself in the right circumstances so it can't be weaponized, any AI driven device that can move around in meatspace can (in theory) be easily repurposed as a lethal weapon. I mean, Al Qaeda used walkie talkies and cellphones to rig up pretty sophisticated IED's - I can't see how we can prevent tech like we see imagined in this video without preventing anyone in the world from creating databases of facial recognition data or biometric data of any and all kinds. It seems to me like it'll take some significant new legislation, new tech to detect and report potential abuses of AI in advance, and/or global treaties to restrict either the collection of biometric data or to strictly regulate the availability of those datasets, with extreme transparency so there's no question who targeted whom.

[@kruldaj]

the world is plunging into destruction....

[@vincentleeadams]

A possible solution to the Fermi paradox?

[@chrisgaming9567]

Probably not. If you live underwater or in space you're perfectly fine.

[@vincentleeadams]

Chris Gaming LOL❗️

[@mouse454]

Chris Gaming Dunno fam there's a drone submarine for sale (25$) at a booth in my mall.

[@musaran2]

Actually, quite. It's easy enough that pretty much any intelligence could do it, and way before generalized space-faring. It's useful enough that they would do it. Its cheap enough that any dofus could massively missuse it. OTOH it would not take down everybody, and survivors would probably rebuild and avoid repeating the mistake.

[@DoctorOctobrist]

@@chrisgaming9567 The USAF has satellite killers. We will drown in our own blood before ever making it off this hellish planet.

[@Akazaji]

You should make a full length film and release it globally in theatres. Not only will you make a ton of money, but you'd get a whole lot more exposure for your cause than you will on youtube.

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

It would just be a more modern and realistic version of "Terminator"

[@kalliste23]

I've been daydreaming about turning a drone into this for some time now. Nice to see the video.

[@eugeniabukhman8533]

This is a pretty cool sci-fi short film! I like the atmosphere it builds, but I'm a bit disappointed on how the creators didn't address that such drones could be easily countered by wearing a face mask.

[@SilentiDominus]

I mean... No & also they did. Adjust parameters to kill anyone wearing a mask, since that is a terrorist. Just like Afghanistan. Hiding your face guarantees you're the target. People that aren't terrorist weren't hiding their faces all the time. The argument between awareness & anonymity. Wearing an anon mask doesn't protect you when it's set to kill every Guy Fawkes look alike. Or you can just wipe the whole room to get your 1 target. Like we do now.

[@dafoex]

Except it won't. Just look at how people are posting online selfies of themselves in masks to get clout for "doing the right thing" regarding corona virus. Just download all their photos from twitter and train your AI to recognise that individual. Anything that could give someone social clout will generate adequate training data to identify an individual.

[@NameCallingIsWeak]

Let's not be stupid, the Chinese and Russians will build this. Also, there can be personal defense bots, and bots to track the source, and bots to defend.

[@epamaarainenroina220]

What I really fear for is the future of civilian drones. Not that I'm a big fan of them but they have their uses and things like this can really give them hard time to be developed and/or used.

[@salaciousBastard]

My defense swarm is better than your attack swarm. Come @ me, bro.

[@Aylon5D]

"Lets not be stupid and build technology that will end freedom and humanity before someone else does" Lets not be stupid Lets not be stupid Lets not be stupid Lets not be stupid .... Error Error Error

[@nick_brana]

yes, there will be defenses, just like there are for nukes. spotty and fallible ones. numerous kinds of weapons have been banned by the international treaty before, chemical and laser for example. i vote we do that instead of a killer robot wild west arms race.

[@Zam4TV]

This should be a feature film. I would watch the hell out of it

[@AlessandroGenTLe]

You can just go back to 1984 and look "Terminator". In the end that movie is just this elevated ^2

[@CraquedEggs]

Who is the actor onstage demonstrating the Slaughterbots ???