Hear that?
It’s the sound of David Lange turning in his grave in disgust as NZ sells out its independent foreign policy.
We’re in the kill chain now baby..
NZ joins US military exercises deploying AI for ‘kill chains’
The Defence Force has been helping the US military with artificial intelligence-powered weapons to speed up what they call “kill chains”.
US reports show the NZDF is one of a half dozen militaries involved in regular exercises to link American and allied war-fighting technology more closely.
The Pentagon has been putting a lot more stress on getting allies on board to counter China.
In an exercise in California with six nations in March, a F35 jetfighter with AI-driven sensors instantly passed targeting data along the “kill chain” to an unmanned kamikaze drone.
In another exercise – also attended by New Zealand – the controversial surveillance firm Palantirsupplied a so-called “metaconstellation” of submarine-hunting satellites.
US military chiefs said they were getting to the point where the combined forces can join up their technology in a “kill web”.
“We’ve always aspired to get this ‘kill web’-type of capability as a joint and combined force, and we’re starting to get to that point,” said the US commander of the “global information domination” exercises (GIDE) New Zealand has been part of.
We are linking up to systems we can’t control here, and seeing as our own Intelligence Agency has been caught out loading NSA spyware into our own systems without any authority from the Civilian Executive, why can we trust Space infrastructure that allows real time target acquisition for real time execution based on the killing autonomy of a robot.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, we won’t know because, you’re going to love this…
The New Zealand government recently shut down an expert advisory group on killer robots.
…hilarious.
The less scrutiny, the more we creep towards something we can no longer recognise.
We probably used our current detachment in the middle east to help Israel take out the Hammas fellow last week
The important part is to make sure you aren’t at the end of the chain.
Autonomous systems will feature heavily in future conflicts. No more losing wars due to too many flag draped coffins coming home. AI driven assets respond quicker, are safer, require less training, are cheaper, lighter and completely expendable. This is one area where you should be glad to remove people from high risk environments.
You are 1000% wrong.
The deaths in a democracy force citizens to vote for politicians who won’t go to war. Automising robots for death removes any obligation for the state violence we are paying for.
You think the state cares for soldiers lives? Too many deaths is just bad publicity, nothing more. There are always more young lives to be wasted by politicians & generals.
And what Chad is the role of humans? I’d suggest death by AI weapons.
Strategic target selection.
so you think they wont be killing people then ?WTF of course they will thats why we have wars so we can kill people that dont agree with us .
We are only concerned about “our” people, others are welcome to die for their country.
I could have bought into his independent foreign policy if we’d built a robust and capable defence force to back it up, but as it is, we’re just defence bludgers.
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