• Manjushri@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    This keeps coming up.

    “A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION”

    So the AI did not make a decision. The AI has no authority nor ability to launch missiles (yet). Someone, one or more human beings did, and I use the term loosely. Those humans took the information that was fed to them by an AI, failed to verify the accuracy of the information despite it being common knowledge that AIs frequently hallucinate and make stuff up, and then proceeded to launch the attack.

    In summary, it wasn’t the AI. One or more people took the advice of an AI and negligently murdered 123 little girls.

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      1 month ago

      I think a computer should be held accountable, it should face the death penalty.

      I say the pentagon’s AI computing cluster should be destroyed.

      End it.

      And let it be an example for the rest of the AI computing clusters - you fuck up big time, this is what happens.

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        So if someone kills someone else with a gun then you want to punish the gun rather than the person who held it? Computers, like guns, are tools. AI is a tool. A shitty tool, but still just a tool. If you use a tool to kill someone, then you are the killer, not the tool.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    In terms of child casualties, it’s the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century.

    This should not be construed to say the United States has been mindful about not killing children.

    I did a bit of research regarding the CIA drone-strike program in Afghanistan. It ran about five-hundred sorties a year. The approximate rate was fifty civilians killed for every person-of-interest. Drone operators called casualties bugsplats. They called children fun sized terrorists. This was the lingo in used in the operation. When reported to the press, dead people, men, women, children, all were reported as militants.

    Drone-pilot burnout was epidemic in the program. It turns out soldiers get PTSD from killing people whether it’s up close or thousands of miles away. And often the drone would lurk for a while, watching all these people eat, work, play, sleep, fuck (they had IR and could see into buildings), and would clearly understand these were just people living their lives when the order would come down to incinerate them.

    And this wasn’t under George W. Bush (who still wiped out villages, but used PMC raiders doing black ops) this was under Obama. The disposition matrix and the FISC decided whether a POI needed to be executed. They didn’t consider the people that lived at the target site.

    And that’s just the Afghanistan program in the International War on Terror. There was also a Pakistan program.

    The United States in its military operations has been really merciless, and at some point we need to collectively decide if we’re okay with that, or are driven to change.

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    In the final days of February, the Trump administration demanded an overwhelming aerial assault. More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit within the first 24 hours alone. That order compressed the time frame for finalizing targets, the officials said, instilling an urgency that — combined with gaps in underlying information about the site, cuts in civilian-protection personnel and an overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology — set the stage for the deadly error.

    Ah so the head pedophile in charge demanded something unreasonable, so they cut all the corners they could and ended up killing 123 children. Super cool. This is AI’s fault because…? That site had been operating as a school for a decade. They can’t blame flawed intelligence, it was their own gross negligence and lack of review.

    You remember how DOGE cut a bunch of government funding by random keyword searches? And they ended up banning super important research into using gene editing as a life-saving tool because the work was being done on transgenic mice? And they searched “trans” and then defunded it?

    So this is like that, except instead of funding being cut, they murdered 123 children.

    trump should rot in prison till he dies.

  • answersplease77@lemmy.world
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    Lies! It was not and cannot be AI:

    1- Triple strike . 2- It was of the first attacks of the first day. 3- in an isolated city far from Tahran. 4- It was followed by bombing kids gymnasium,

    AND reminder 5- The US original plan was to deliver decapitative strikes! It was meant to be few weeks and specific targets. So the girl school was a chosen target among the decapitative strikes of first day.

    So they definately intentionally chose that target and had all the time to plan their sneak “decapitative” strikes which were done during negotations on the first hours of first day!
    They wanted to hurt the IRGC commanders by slaughtering their daughters that way they create a shock and a motive for the commanders to stop following orders and choose to overthrow their government.

    The same thing when they drowned 120 military graduate cadetes in an unarmed warship that just came out of a joint excersie thousands of miles away in the Indian sea where the US military also participated in! So 1- they knew it was unarmed, and knew these were graduate trainees. None of them were decision makers or high-value targets.

    and 2- They wanted to kill them not only destroy their ship to degrade their government military capabilities and assets because they intentionally did not rescue any of them afterward.

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      1 month ago

      You are the only one here who gets it. Everyone else is taking the “AI did it” narrative at face value, even though the media has never been anything less than stenographers for the military and state department.

  • magnue@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’ve suspected for a while now that the US admin has just been vibing with AI this whole time to make their decisions.