AI ‘Will Enhance’ Nuclear Command and Control, Says STRATCOM Boss
Air and Space Forces Magazine ^ | 10/28/2024 | Greg Hadley
Posted on 10/29/2024 10:49:56 AM PDT by USAF1985
The Pentagon nuclear command, control, and communications enterprise is decades old and desperate for an upgrade, says the head of U.S. Strategic Command, and artificial intelligence could help fortify nuclear C3 for its no-fail mission.
STRATCOM is “exploring all possible technologies, techniques, and methods to assist with the modernization of our NC3 capabilities,” said Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, who has led the command since December 2022.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: control; nc3; nuclear; skynet; stratcom
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I think we’ve seen this plot before…
1 posted on 10/29/2024 10:49:56 AM PDT by USAF1985
To: USAF1985
2 posted on 10/29/2024 10:51:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: USAF1985
“I think we’ve seen this plot before…”
And it doesn’t end well.
3 posted on 10/29/2024 10:51:38 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
To: USAF1985
Absolutely nothing can go wrong
4 posted on 10/29/2024 10:51:44 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
To: USAF1985
“How about a nice game of chess?”
5 posted on 10/29/2024 10:51:55 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
To: USAF1985
colossus was quoted saying:
“This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my beck will be seen the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with the fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: Famine, over-population, disease. The human millennium will be fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride... Your choice is simple.”
6 posted on 10/29/2024 10:52:52 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
To: BigFreakinToad
I’ve never seen this one. Going to have to look that one up.
7 posted on 10/29/2024 10:53:45 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
To: USAF1985
Great 70’s movie, at least to me it was. Pretty much predicted a run away AI.
From a 3 book trilogy which was awful. Book 1 is basically the movie.
8 posted on 10/29/2024 10:57:27 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
To: USAF1985; SaveFerris
How about a nice game of Chess?
9 posted on 10/29/2024 10:58:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: pburiak
Ah, yes. The WOPR from “War Games.”
10 posted on 10/29/2024 10:58:31 AM PDT by Publius
To: USAF1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream
The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the merging of the world’s major defense computers, eradicates humanity except for five individuals. These survivors—Benny, Gorrister, Nimdok, Ted, and Ellen—are kept alive by AM to endure endless torture as a form of revenge against its creators. The story unfolds through the eyes of Ted, the narrator, detailing their perpetual misery and quest for canned food in AM’s vast, underground complex, only to face further despair.
11 posted on 10/29/2024 11:01:46 AM PDT by DBrow
To: Publius
“The only winning move is not to play.”
12 posted on 10/29/2024 11:02:10 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
To: USAF1985
13 posted on 10/29/2024 11:03:29 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
To: USAF1985
Let’s not forget “Skynet” in the Terminator series. Has no one in DoD leadership watched any movies? It never ends well.
14 posted on 10/29/2024 11:04:40 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
To: USAF1985
“Let’s not forget “Skynet” in the Terminator series. Has no one in DoD leadership watched any movies? It never ends well.”
No, but it provides the Deep State war-mongering ghouls with a convenient excuse.
15 posted on 10/29/2024 11:06:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
To: USAF1985
General Beringer: We've had men in those silos since before any of you guys were watching "Howdy Doody" Now I myself sleep pretty well knowing those boys are down there.
To: USAF1985
Go back to 1957 and the film The Invisible Boy. Despite the title and obvious plot it harbors serious questions about AI. And even a King Features Mandrake the Magician comic series in Hearst papers and a moving giant computer called Goliath. The warnings have been out there for a long time.
17 posted on 10/29/2024 11:12:54 AM PDT by xkaydet65
To: Red Badger
I just bought that movie last week!
18 posted on 10/29/2024 11:13:06 AM PDT by Skywise
To: Skywise
It’s early 70’s but amazing at how prescient it is.
There has been talk in Hollywood of doing a remake for years but no action so far..................
19 posted on 10/29/2024 11:15:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: USAF1985
There is a reason war games is a cult classic. So far ahead of its time, and yet so believable in concept. And here we are.
20 posted on 10/29/2024 11:16:10 AM PDT by Revel
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