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ianm218yesterday at 8:29 PM4 repliesview on HN

9 mothers appears to do defense from drones which seems completely ethical. What is dystopian about that?


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varencyesterday at 9:03 PM

They make a very fast "AI powered" turret shotgun. It automatically selects, aims, and shoots down targets. I imagine this is great for shooting down swarms of small fiber optic or autonomous drones impervious to electronic attacks. But automated weapons like this can easily pivot into uses besides anti-drone. Taking humans out of the loop on deadly kinetic weapons is concerning. But personally, I don't really see any other viable defense against small drone swarms.

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levocardiayesterday at 8:49 PM

Probably the worry that the jump from "we defend against slaughterbots" to "we built a better slaughterbot" is just around the corner

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delbronskiyesterday at 9:12 PM

A company named 9 mothers, which sells a service to stop artificially intelligent machines from falling from sky and blowing up everything… funded by another company that lures smart young men and women with billionaire dreams that wreak havoc on society.

Not dystopian at all.

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wrqvrwvqyesterday at 11:36 PM

out of all the companies listed, yc would of course choose something like this. "wow you're going to defend american soldiers????" yc and this site are chinese ops run by the scummiest sinotrash on earth. steal millions and deliver vaporware? "oh sounds like a failed business". try to protect soldiers from drones? "oh sounds like you're the terminator highly unethical sar."