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DrJones1098 on Dec 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: People's underestimation of AI

I'm sure there won't be ONE person controlling 50 thousand drones. There will be teams and squads like there is now.. just 'remote'.

As for hacking, you have the best engineers in the world at DARPA, I'm sure it will be somewhat robust...

The last part about rolling back education, I can't agree with you more. I feel like this current wave of Nationalism around the world might have something to do with that.

eli_gottlieb on Dec 29, 2016 [–]

>As for hacking, you have the best engineers in the world at DARPA, I'm sure it will be somewhat robust...

Our governments are filled with people who set their passwords to "password". Yes, the drones will get hacked.

ben_w on Dec 29, 2016 | [–]

To back up your point, they already have been:

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/17/skygrabber-ame...

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