How the Pentagon’s Skynet Would Automate War

[jakeXT]

Pentagon officials are worried that the US military is losing its edge compared to competitors like China, and are willing to explore almost anything to stay on top—including creating watered-down versions of the Terminator.

Due to technological revolutions outside its control, the Department of Defense (DoD) anticipates the dawn of a bold new era of automated war within just 15 years. By then, they believe, wars could be fought entirely using intelligent robotic systems armed with advanced weapons.

Last week, US defense secretary Chuck Hagel ann​ounced the ‘Defense Innovation Initiative’—a sweeping plan to identify and develop cutting edge technology breakthroughs “over the next three to five years and beyond” to maintain global US "mili​tary-technological superiority." Areas to be covered by the DoD programme include robotics, autonomous systems, miniaturization, Big Data and advanced manufacturing, including 3D printing.

But just how far down the rabbit hole Hagel’s initiative could go—whether driven by desperation, fantasy or hubris—is revealed by an overlooked Pentagon-funded study, published quietly in mid-September by the DoD National Defense University’s (NDU) Center for Technology and National Security Policy in Washington DC.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-pentagons-skynet-would-automate-war

[hedda_foil]

1. That should end well.

[Politicalboi]

2. Terminator 3 turned out good

At least we know 2 people lived. What could go wrong.

[Fred Sanders]

3. So Hagel announces his crazy future war vision a week ago a...and today he is gone.....coincidence?

[jakeXT]

5. Maybe we need some CEOs from the defense industry

Last edited Mon Nov 24, 2014, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)

00:00 Today I'm announcing a new defense innovation initiative. In initiative
00:05 that we expect to develop into a game changing third offset
00:08 strategy. This new initiative is an ambitious. Department wide effort to
00:13 identify and invest in innovative ways to sustain. In advance America's
00:18 military dominance for the 21 century. If this capability is eroded
00:22 or lost. We will see a world far more dangerous and
00:26 unstable. Far more threatening to America our citizens here at home
00:31 and we have seen since World War II. Without our superiority
00:35 the strength and credibility of our alliance will suffer. Our commitment
00:39 to enforcing long established international law. Rules of the road. And
00:44 principles. Could be doubted by both our friends and our adversaries.
00:49 We're not waiting for change to come we're not waiting. For
00:53 that change to come to us. We're taking an issue getting
00:57 ahead of that change. That change we nose coming.

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2014/11/16/19127443/

[longship]

4. DUN-DUN-DUNNNN!

Get SkyNet!

[bemildred]

6. Defense dept. marketing babble.

"We are going to need a shitload of money, all up front, but boy are we going to save the world someday, maybe, unless it's like Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam or Korea or Ukraine or most of Latin America at one time or another."