The average life expectancy for a Russian soldier in Ukraine is between 20-30 minutes, CIA director John Ratcliffe said. Speaking at a defense summit in Pennsylvania, he attributed the deadly conditions for Vladimir Putin’s forces to Ukraine’s combat drones equipped with AI. “What I would say is, our intelligence is consistent with some of the open-source reporting you may have seen in Ukraine,” Ratcliffe said. “So the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit, right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes.” “And that’s because AI-powered drones have gotten to be such specialized, low-cost killing machines. And it’s why we’re now four and a half years into that conflict,” Ratcliffe added. Ukraine said this month that Russia has lost about 1.4 million soldiers since the beginning of its full-scale invasion, with over 1,000 of the Kremlin’s troops killed or wounded almost every day. In May, Ukraine’s defense ministry said it was killing roughly 200 Russian soldiers for every kilometer of territory that Moscow claimed.
This is great for Ukraine, but not so hot for the future of warfare. We may have to get good at building EMPs for when the terminators come.
yeah I can’t help but read all this as very bad news indeed in the longer term. There’s nothing stopping Russia, North Korea, or indeed any random manchild billionaire deploying this tech within the coming months or years and deciding who they think should die. It’s not like nukes which are difficult to get material for and difficult to build. Most of the advanced stuff is the software, which can be easily copied.
What was stopping russia to deploy it a year ago?
Like now, they don’t have the AI technology.
This isn’t AI related. Russia was counting on a fast win to steal the resources they would need to lock it in. They didn’t get one.
What i mean is they know about it and had opportunity to do it too, but they didn’t. That means there is something else they are missing
Or they miss nothing but they are not as cruel and dystopian as our media presents them.
Right, they decided to invade out of love.
Hahahaha, yes the Russians will concede because of morality
Lol, you dummy
So, what’s the better explanation?
Corruption
That seems unlikely.
Why? I haven’t heard about existing autonomously flying killer drones yet. Why should Russia have them?
If drones are operated fiber optically, does an EMP even work?
You’re confusing communication with what EMP is really good at - frying digital circuits
EMP destroys electronics. The fibre optics, plastic and metal will all be ok. the circuit boards will all be fried. Future drones will no doubt have emp protections, but its still early days
*fiber. Not fibree or fibray.
“Fibre” in English.
“Fiber” in Americanglish
There is more than one dialect of English.
Emps are good, but they don’t care if you are friend or foe, or civilian infrastructure and it doesn’t stop when it hits its intended target. So itll probably take out the next few Km’s
So you can probably just shoot it forward on the frontlines. But thats not really how drone warfare works alot of the time