I’m assuming that op was asking about something like this I had read about it before the air force denied it and I imagine most people who have seen that haven’t seen the denial. They were also asking about what the military is “looking to build” I was trying to meet the op where they were and you came in with a pointless “akshully!”
Good lord. You’re talking about programs being smart enough to disable their own killswitch. That’s not a fucking thing.
ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uncle_Sheo217@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wonder what would go down if a CWIS managed to go rogue. Like I know it’s literally impossible, but if it was what would it do? Would a Phalanx just fire 20mm at random? It’s an interesting hypothetical imo. Obv I agree with you that current tech is most def not even close to smart enough to disable their own programming
Fosheze@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Phalanx does auto target. It just can’t fire on its own. They’re designed to shoot down missiles and humans can’t aim that fast so they’re fully autonomous except for the fire control. From what I remember targets are assigned and prioritized by the AEGIS system on the ship but the Phalanx is designed to do all of the actual targeting on it’s own so that if the ship targeting stuff is damaged it can still function perfectly fine without it.
Theres a short video out there of a phalanx targeting and tracking a passenger plane. Aparently they’re also known to track birds and people walking around on the the ship.
So as far as one going rogue, all it would take is for the person in the control room to give it the fire command at the wrong time. Of course they fire at 4,500 rounds per minute and their large magazine only holds 1,550 rounds, so it’s spree of carnage would be pretty short lived.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More likely, P.O. Malarky gets an ass full of hot lead because he forgot the reapply the lube during the previous maintenance.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe if FC2 wasn’t always gun decking his shit he’d have less ammo inside him.
Zippy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worse. They are taking about a program that has some sort of motivation or desires to disable the kill switch. It is quite silly yet. Worst case is a program bug that somehow disables. That would be highly unlikely. Particularly in such a way it would be dangerous.