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Slaughterbots

Slaughterbots is a fictional short film, backed by Stuart Russell, depicting swarms of cheap autonomous drones that use facial recognition to assassinate targets. It was made to argue for banning autonomous weapons.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN invokes it as the standard reference whenever drone swarms, autonomous weapons or military AI come up in the news.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Stop Autonomous Weapons
Topic
autonomous weapons
Format
other
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Can drones be stopped? They have the potential to wage campaigns of automated political violence. I see companies trying to protect against them, like Dedrone [1] -- how effective are these? I imagine most here have seen it, but if not, you must see the …

    malloryerik on Hacker News · 2018-08
    In Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack'

  • The tech required for search and rescue is the same tech required for search and destroy. We seem to be running headfirst into the autonomous killer bot future without giving so much as a second look at the implications. Slaughterbots [0] is a pretty good …

    bicubic on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers

  • The substantive part of this conversation comes about 35 minutes in, when Allen describes the DoD's five AI ethics principles: that any deployed AI systems must be "Responsible, Equitable, Traceable, Reliable, and Governable." [1]. I think "Responsible" raises some hard questions. Today, any weapons use …

    lwneal on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In How the U.S. military thinks about AI [audio]

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