What do you think about the government using AI for Mass surveillance and autonomous weapons ?

I feel like the government using AI for autonomous weapons is a bad idea, because, when the weapons shoot, they will most likely slip up and wont tell between a enemy soldier or a civilian in the crossfire. AI doesn’t have feelings or emotions like humans do, they don’t care who they hurt or what they do, they just do what they’re programmed to do. Imagine if a robot or an self-controlled weapon comes across a child in the war and they were told to kill everyone they come across, it would shoot it, because it doesn’t have feelings or emotions, unlike a human soldier, nine times out of ten they are going to spare the child because we have emotions. Now there are a percent of soldiers that will shoot without hesitation and that is what the army wants but imagine if that was you or your child, innocent or in the wrong place at the wrong time and was shot, no chance, no hesitation. That’s what our army is trying to do. AI is not ready for fully autonomous weapons just yet but at the rate its going, its definitely going to come soon. Being spied on by the government is a invasion of privacy and is breaking laws of state that we fought so much for. AI now makes generated photos and videos from what we post online, imagine what they could do with cameras or drones spying on our everyday lives. They could use it as leverage or even if a cop shoots a civilian or is wrong of judgement or racist and profiles black people or any different race, AI could cover for them by editing the body cam or video to cover the cop so they can keep they’re job. The government wants to use AI before it is ready and wants to do whatever they want with the product. There is no telling what the government might do with this kind of technology.

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