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12 Oct, 15 tweets, 6 min read
Oh Great They're Putting Guns On Robodogs Now

"So hey they've started mounting sniper rifles on robodogs, which is great news for anyone who was hoping they'd start mounting sniper rifles on robodogs."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/oh-great-the…
At an exhibit booth in the @AUSAorg annual meeting and exhibition, Ghost Robotics (the military-friendly competitor to the better-known Boston Dynamics) proudly showed off a weapon that is designed to attach to its quadruped bots.
"Due to its highly capable sensors the SPUR can operate in a magnitude of conditions, both day and night. The SWORD Defense Systems SPUR is the future of unmanned weapon systems, and that future is now."
sworddefense.com/spur/
Back in May the US Air Force put out a video on the "Robotic Ghost Dog" these weapons are designed to be used with, which is a lot creepier when you imagine them maneuvering around while carrying a gun designed to blow apart skulls from a kilometer away.
The SPUR is just one of many different weapons we'll surely see tested for use with quadruped robots in coming years, and eventually we'll likely see its successors tested on impoverished foreigners in needless military interventions by the United States and/or its allies.
They will join other unmanned weapons systems in the imperial arsenal like the USA's notorious drone program, South Korea's Samsung SGR-A1,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1#%2…
the Turkish Kargu drone which has already reportedly attacked human beings in Libya without having been given a human command to do so,
livescience.com/ai-drone-attac…
...and the AI-assisted robotic sniper rifle that was used by Israeli intelligence in coordination with the US government to assassinate an Iranian scientist last year.
archive.is/0YOTC
And we may be looking at a not-too-distant future in which unmanned weapons systems are sought out by wealthy civilians as well.
In 2018 @rushkoff wrote an article titled "Survival of the Richest" in which he disclosed that a year earlier he had been paid an enormous fee to meet with five extremely wealthy hedge funders.
onezero.medium.com/survival-of-th…
I encourage you to read the following paragraph from Rushkoff's article carefully, because it says so much about how these people see our future, our world, and their fellow human beings:
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman has said that more than half of Silicon Valley's billionaires have invested in some type of "apocalypse insurance" such as an underground bunker.
imd.org/research-knowl…
The New Yorker has published an article about this mega-rich doomsday prepper phenomenon as well. We may be sure that military forces aren't the only ones planning on having eternally loyal killing machines protecting their interests going forward.
newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
We are ruled by warmongers and sociopaths, and none of them have healthy plans for our future. They are not kind, and they are not wise. They're not even particularly intelligent.
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