6 responses to “If Only It Was this Simple”

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   MrLiberty

   September 10, 2026 at 10:38 pm

   It will require pulling out humans, not just chips. And yes, it will not be anywhere near that easy.

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   Steady Steve

   September 10, 2026 at 11:00 pm

   Let’s hope some engineer quietly built in an off switch and didn’t tell his boss.

   1. 

      MrLiberty

      September 10, 2026 at 11:17 pm

      Oppenheimer did, but everyone knows….

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   General “Buck” Turgedson

   September 10, 2026 at 11:29 pm

   The core brains of these AI systems will be in a centralized location. Not spread out in the up and coming data centers–where the cores will pull their data from. You will in fact be able to pull the plug on these AI actors if they get out of hand–though how much damage they will do before you accomplish it all is to be determined. The robots you saw in that movie “AI” as of now do not have a compact enough brain to allow them to act independently as you saw in the film. 1st Generation robotics will have to be connected with 6g fast connections to AI in order to function. Some years down the road–AI will be compact quantum computing enough to fit into a small space to allow true independent robotics like you saw in that movie. We are nowhere near that now. When this happens–you can really worry as we are moving into the ‘Terminator’ area of robotics.

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      Michael

      September 11, 2026 at 12:28 pm

      Might want to review this:

      https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ukraines-drones-get-ai-upgrades-for-kamikaze-strikes-future-swarm-attacks/

      Now I suspect you were speaking of AI Robot soldiers like Terminator but for a tiny fraction of the cost these can be sent into a target area with a list and priority targeting sequence to swarm targets.

      Human controller optional.

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         General “Buck” Turgedson

         September 11, 2026 at 10:05 pm

         I see what you are saying about Ukraine–but programing a drone to attack anything beyond, or within a certain area of contact, is completely different from letting loose a drone that sneaks its way into the Kremlin–and looks for and hunts down a certain individual. These drone have very limited AI as control.