Why War?
I have always hated the military profession so much so that one time I had pushed for my friend in the military to resign, which he paid no heed to, of course.
According to this my friend, being a soldier is the only thing he knows, and he has never pictured himself in anything else. In this case resorting to the use of AI in wars would lead to people like my friend being jobless and displaced, which ultimately might even cost his family being subjected to abject poverty.
Basically a man is the head of the home and once a man loses the will to provide and protect, it becones chaotic and most times a burden too much to bear for the other partner.
Another time I saw a post of how the military carried out an operation against civilians, and I made mention of how I would resign if I was ever in the military and I was being made to carry out an order against my conscience or humanity. In that post another mutual friend also in the military came to defend his profession and counter me.
Now picture a scenerio with robots , being void of human emotions, there are no holdbacks or boundaries. Again, giving that this AI robots work with programming, what happens if the military machines of an opponent gets hacked as a strategic mechanism? That will be doomsday and the opponent whose war machine is hacked would be sitting ducks.
You see my hatred for the military stem from how highly politicized it is. To me, being a soldier is just another means of saying, “Oh, look at me, I am a pawn in the greater scheme of things, and really it doesn’t get any better even if we start swapping soldiers with AI robots.”
In fact, I think it gets worse, as I can’t stop thinking about the movie Terminator: The Rise of the Machine. I am sure I am not the only one who gets concerned that one day the movie could actually be a reality and we will wrestle not against our fellow humans but machines.
Really, if not for the chaotic nature of humans, why would countries budget heavily for war? I mean, if deploying humans for war could be this expensive, how much more would investing in robots with AI as a replacement cost?
While deploying robots in place of humans during wars would reduce the casualties in the military how about the civilians who gets caught in the cross fire? The question is, does their life not matter?
Again we often hear the government complain about the resources being stretched thin to accomodate everyone. In my country, there is always a debate on the percentage of the budget allocated to health care and education.
While critic fault the government for giving a meagre sum of the budget to this crucial sector, we often see the government use that line of limited resources. But then on a critical look I call it mismanagement and misappropriation of funds because really if war would always be settled in the negotiating table with diplomacy why engage in combat to begin with?
Why not just resort to diplomacy from the onset ? Why waste money, available resources, and human lives in a bit of preserving one’s ego as a leader?
Well, I am of the opinion that wars are all about personal interest, and this was why I had wanted my friend to resign because it never makes sense to me to go fight for a chaos triggered by someone else.
In a nutshell, this is me saying, replacing soldiers with military robots or not, if people just mind their businesses, leaders are contended with their resources and just stick to their part of the world, maybe just maybe we won’t be investing so heavily on war machines at the expense of the masses well being.
