A Very Short Horror Story

 

Nightmare

Two 10-man squads on night patrol. State of the art night gear and weapons.

Threat protection alarms go off. Everyone hits the ground and unfurls 

the infra-red shield blankets and covers up. Over the horizon comes a

mass formation of hunter-killer drones in perfect formation. Thousands 

of them. Every man on the ground knows that each drone carries an IR

guided bomblet, but the shield blankets have been successful camo up to 

now. 

But this formation is run by an AI that, based on its last intel, 

estimates where the squads probably are. The AI is extraordinarily good

at estimating. It commands 1000 drones to lay a grid of bomblets over 

the coordinates it estimates is the target. The two squads are completely

ground up. 


8000 bomblets a-coming


The swarm briefly reorganizes into a victory celebration dragon, then reforms

into the attack matrix and goes hunting for more victims.

After we bomb you, we will 
dance on your graves.
*
As you (probably) know drones of all sorts are changing the shape of modern warfare. Ukraine and Russia are innovating every day in that bloody war.  China has the largest drone capacity of all countries. 

AI is changing drone warfare like it's changing everything else. With the exquisite control of drones, guided by the extraordinary capacities of AI, drone weaponry will become inescapable. No time to be an infantryman or in a tank or artillery crew.

So dangerous that the species pathology we call war will be cured?   Nah.

*8100 drones over Shenzhen, China 2024

PS, I think it is big time stupid to be "punishing" Ukraine by witholding weapons and cutting off intelligence support. Oh, and deeply cruel. 

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