The idea of AI and robots going to war is thrilling, but I think we should look at some deep things and ask questions before we go all in with that idea. This would be re-defining everything we have known about War from ages past and it will also help us evaluate the difference between war and a mere competition. Let’s understand that the moment robots begin to represent us on the battlefield from both the opposing and defending parties it no longer becomes a battlefield but a competition ground. This is to say Technology would have eradicated the idea of a war and changed the narrative that is used to determine power. This means those who have enough resources in the tech world to produce the most outstanding set of robots and artificial intelligence would become the world’s power. In past centuries the number of manpower in the Army and battle strategies were the things that determine power and authority, now it is the number and quality of ammunition that determine this.
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The question is that would our world government accept this kind of change? This is because when you want to destroy power you need to destroy the people, when the losing country sees that their people are dying in war, they understand the adverse effect it will have on the economy in terms of population, they understand it will also affect the future of the nation and thus they either retreat or surrender to buy time. But when Robots are sent out, the competition (instead of war) will not stop as long as they can just make more. The power struggle will change and in order for it to become a competition again people will be targeted, resources will be destroyed and power would become even more fierce and harder to gain when lost. Before now when a nation loses citizens in war, they can just give themselves time to reproduce, open their borders to foreigners and try to fix their population. But if robots come into play, the winning strategy would be to destroy industries and factories producing them, kill the few controlling them, but the idea of colonization would become even stronger because you would want to keep your enemy down and what better way to do so than with the same robots.
Although it would really save a lot of lives, we will have the population, but I bet if your country loses and you realize the nation is no longer allowed to produce war robots because it has been colonized, it will be another slavery. And we all know that all it takes is one program to use a robot to shut down an entire airport. I can also imagine how the battle of robots and Artificial intelligence will be, imagine hearing your country is at war and suddenly electricity goes out in the entire country. It won’t be a matter of people dying in the field, but actual innocent people dying in hospitals and businesses failing. Or maybe an AI decides to wipe the entire bank account of citizens in a country because they know they are better and can overwrite the protocols of the other. This is where the real war will now begin and innocent citizens will still suffer. If the innocent do not suffer, it is not yet a war, it is a competition and in war the only way to win is to hit where it hurts the most, which is the living breathing humans.
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 200 EPISODE 2
