Since the beginning of time, technology has been used by governments to kill enemy combatants and to keep themselves safe from their citizens.
From Gatling’s gun and Nobel’s Dynamite to Oppenheimers Bomb and Norden’s bombsite that delivered it, inventors have believed that more advanced weaponry and sophisticated targeting would reduce suffering in war.
Fun Fact: The Norden Bombsight, the most sophisticated mechanical computer ever mass produced, was manufactured in NE. Mpls. The factory is now full of craft boutiques, artists lofts, and a distillery.
Bombs Inside of Pickel Barrels
“Trust me,” says the CEO, “these are all bad guys” as the drone bombs use facial recognition to take out half a city, but we’re to rest assured, it’s the bad half.
Norden’s bombsite used gears and levers to compute weapons’ trajectories faster and more accurately than ever. It’ll drop “a bomb inside a pickle barrel” the inventor promised. The bomb at Hiroshima still missed it’s target by 800 feet.
Even with today’s advanced AI targeting systems, knowing which pickle barrel to drop your bomb in is a sophisticated problem.
AI is Systemically Racist
The backlog in courts from the Covid 19 crisis prompted China to create an AI prosecutor that prosecutes with a stunning, 97% accuracy rate. Around May 27th, 2020, the Target Corporation’s Loss Prevention and Surveillance Equipment Testing Center on Lake Street was looted.
Target’s sophisticated AI Facial Recognition could easily track each of the people responsible. Given enough data, it could identify every protestor in 2020. In Dec. 2021, the CEO’s of retail corporations asked congress to pass the Inform Consumers Act, to keep them safe.
The killing of George Floyd while he was high on methamphetamine and fentanyl, within the volume of a vehicle, after passing a counterfeit $20 bill, and resisting arrest, was clearly racist. One might think automated systems provide a solution, but Communism is the only way to stop it.
Take the study of drivers in Chicago. Cameras found on average that Black drivers drove 15 miles over the speed limit and broke traffic laws more than white drivers. Or Google’s Hate Speech AI that detected Hate Speech at a much higher rate for African Americans because of the language they use.
AI was used to analyze speech patterns of nearly a thousand police interactions; it found that regardless of the cop, interactions with Blacks were more likely to result in disrespectful language toward suspects.
No study was done on the rate of disrespectful language toward police, but that way of looking at the data would likely also be racist.
Trolley Problem
A little girl with a radio in Afghanistan spotted an American caravan. In full sight of the men, she radioed the caravan’s coordinates to the Taliban. According to the rules of war, the little girl was an enemy combatant and would have been shot and killed by an autonomous bot because that would have been legal. However, it was not moral.
The soldiers never reported how they would have handled an Afghani young man giving up their coordinates, but the Taliban was quick to provide more job opportunities for girls. How progressive of them.
Left to humans, these types of moral valuations produce systemically racist outcomes. All indicators predict that AI will also continue to produce systemically racist outcomes, unless we implement Communism.
It’s very clear, we must implement Communism to end this systemic racism, or at the very least Socialism before AI makes it any worse.
Use of force decisions will have to weigh the good of women and children against the actions of men. To keep us safe, moral values will have to be quantified in order to be programmed, and existential moral quandaries such as the Trolley problem will need to be solved.
There are several people on a track. If you pull the lever, you can divert to kill just one person. Do you pull the lever?
Here’s how one ethical child prodigy solved the problem.
The question becomes, are all people going to be valued the same? What if some of the people on the track are followers of Adolf Hitler? What if others are followers of Kate Millett?
This forces us to face very serious problems in that A.I. has a difficult time telling Black people apart and doesn’t know that transwomen are women.
Only Communism can fix this problem.
Lethality
Studies show that a clear, undeniable, majority of completely legitimate, not in any way fraudulent voters in the United States support vaccine mandates. A significant minority want to cut police budgets and the Supreme Court doesn’t know anything about science. Municipalities may need to resort to needledrones to keep us safe from white supremacist political dissidents and enforce vaccine mandates.
Photo Courtesy: Minnesota Tazerdrone Incorporated
Police shootings have proven to be expensive and the public regards choking maskless people to death in the street as racist.
Shortages of qualified women and Black Indigenous Police of Color could cause cities to increase the use of crowdsourcing, community policing, and robot murder dogs.
In a recent art installation, an app let members of the public control a Boston Dynamics Robot Murder Dog with a paintball gun in an art gallery. The installation was called “Spot’s Rampage”.
Boston Dynamics, Chief Executive Marc Raibert said at a technology conference he predicts the robot will “probably have military customers”, but using Spot to harm a person would void the terms of its sale.
Boston Dynamics was therefore outraged at this public representation of their product, “We condemn the portrayal of our technology in any way that promotes violence, harm or intimidation.”
With this very clear messaging and policy intentions, there’s no telling why these Tazerdronophobic art hooligans might continue with the Spot’s Rampage art installation.
“Spot is an empathy missile, shaped like man’s best friend and targeted straight at our fight or flight instinct,” according to the misogynistic tazerdronophobes, “When killer robots come to America they will be wrapped in fur, carrying a ball… this thing will definitely be used by police and the military to murder people.”
This of course, depends on how your legal and marketing departments define words like, “police”, “military”, “murder”, and “people.”
Systemic Racism in Sentencing
Black men receive longer same-crime sentences than white people. A deeper analysis of the data by Cornell University finds that men on average receive a 60% same-crime sentencing disparity than women. According to 538 Media, white men receive longer same-crime sentences than women of any color.
It’s very clear, we must implement Communism to end this systemic racism, or at the very least Socialism before AI makes it any worse.
Systemic Misogyny in Criminal Statistics
If you were to line up men and women side-by-side at random and pick which one was the more aggressive, and you always picked the man, you’d be right 60% of the time. You’d also be wrong 40% of the time.
After the age of 19, women are actually far more criminal than men, but this is not currently represented in deaths by police or incarceration rates. China already has an AI Prosecutor that’s mostly accurate.
Our current best domestic violence model is based on Kate Millett’s Patriarchy Theory, which states that all men are guilty of using a spectrum of violence to oppress women. This includes George Floyd and Daunte Wright.
If we allow automata to make these decisions, far more women and Blacks are likely to be killed by tazerdrones and robot murder dogs.
This is why we must implement Communism to end this systemic misogyny, or at the very least Socialism before AI makes it worse.
