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Experts Want to Give Control of America's Nuclear Missiles to AI

by ForFreedom on 9/3/19, 7:36 PM with 6 comments

• by hacktember on 9/3/19, 7:40 PM

  "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

• by nabla9 on 9/3/19, 8:02 PM

  Instead of delegating launch authority to more people in the case of decapitation attack, let's just automate it. Seems like a big conceptual jump without a good reason.

• by one2zero on 9/3/19, 7:38 PM

  I'm guessing they've never seen some of James Cameron's early works.

• by rolph on 9/3/19, 7:50 PM

  when asked "lets play global thermonuclear war"

  even alexa suggests a nice game of chess