Posted on 11/18/2019 5:07:30 PM PST by Mariner
(Washington, D.C.) Armed Army robot vehicles conducted reconnaissance, called for indirect fire and then, when directed by human decision-makers, attacked and destroyed enemy targets in a recent experiment designed to assess the technical maturity and readiness of autonomous ground drones.
“We had four robot vehicles conduct a tactical mission while humans were safe in defilade. We built four robots that are refurbished M113 tracked vehicles and we’ve taken two Bradleys -- gutted them -- and turned them into two control vehicles with all kinds of sensors on them,” Jeff Langhout, Director, Ground Vehicle Systems Center, told reporters in October at the Association of the United States Army Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C.
Langhout explained that the robots engaged in “direct fire” missions when directed by human decision-makers, per existing doctrine requiring a human to be “in the loop” when it comes to using lethal force for attack.
It’s the cutting edge of manned-unmanned teaming, human-machine interface coordinating human decision-makers with robots increasingly able to perform autonomous functions. The Army doctrinal parameters are significant here, because the technological ability of a robot to surveil, track, target and destroy a target without human intervention -- is basically here. However, for ethical and tactical reasons, DoD maintains its clear position that humans must make decisions regarding the use of lethal force, despite advances in algorithms enabling greater autonomy. The doctrinal stance is also grounded in a recognition that even the most advanced computer algorithms are not sufficient to replace the problem-solving, decision-making abilities of human cognition. There is concern, however, that potential adversaries will not adhere to similar doctrine.
These questions figure prominently as the Army leverages the best available technology and makes rapid progress toward its ultimate goal of fielding a fleet of unmanned vehicles operating as “wing-men” for manned attack vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
“Ultimate Weapon”?
Every Infantry Officer I met wanted to kill someone with an E-Tool.
“And I can rip your throat open with this P-38!”
I don’t know.
I don’t know if they even make Bugles anymore.
Ooohhhhhh
You meant the remote controlled things.
Probably not, but I see they are running specials on Audis.
Just bought a bag of Bugles a couple of weeks ago. They used to be better.
Science Fiction is becoming reality.
I always loved the line from Firefly
where the pilot says,”Wow, this is like something from
science Fiction!” and his wife replies...
“Honey, we live in a space ship...”.
Dip them in Ranch dressing.
Is there anything that isn’t better when it is dipped in Ranch dressing?
Ok. Besides watermelon.
“They used to be better.”
Didn’t we all.
Didn’t. We. All.
Do You know the
Name of the Episode?
.
I’ve got the Entire
Remastered Series.
And it’s Spectacular!
I wonder what Patton would think about it?
Commodore Decker and “The Doomsday Machine”
. Met William Windem later in life. A really nice guy. Parachuted into France on D Day. An all American. RIP.
“Since dominance of the electromagnetic spectrum can no longer be ascertained, AI becomes increasingly important to this military revolution.”
Very impressive stuff and I’m sure they will produce lethal results. Still, they would not have won the war in Viet Nam and they will never win in a guerrilla war. In Viet Nam, the VN combatants would duck underground to avoid SVN forces, these machines would miss those people who would then be behind the advancing machines - bad positions.
Additionally, wars are not won without “boots on the ground.” Will these machines go door to door and distinguish btwn non-combatants and combatants? That’s how many wars will be won in the future. If you’re wrong and fire, you’re crucified in the ever-present media.
Still, these things can be very useful as part of a combined force and, used carefully, can ruin enemy forces. Nice article. Thanks.
Exactly.
Iran would be the perfect proving grounds, and their republican guard the perfect test subjects.
The release of fully autonomous weapons into a field of combat or upon a civilian population should garner the same response as the introduction of chemical or biological weapons, a nuclear response.
Things that radiate EM at about 5 orders of magnitude over what’s involved in the comm/control aspects of the article subject?
Do they have German accents?
Most of the world's armies are not worried about media criticism.
Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
The problem is that we have been fighting a clever, but primitive enemy for a long time. The near-pear adversaries like Russia & China have been developing this technology already. The US has to catch up.
That’s it,
Thanks!
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