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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9705084" data-attributes="member: 63">1) That could work. I am thinking about having an action sequence in Paris, ranging from the Palais Garnier opera house and Notre Dame, but those buildings have been there for centuries, so they'll probably last a few decades more.2) I'm going to have a few high profile instances of a hacked drone vehicle fleet causing great harm at some point, so the generals decided there needs to be as short a link as possible between a person pulling a trigger and a machine shooting. The problem actually is AI itself (or rather, really clever dumb computers), which can figure out ways to penetrate systems. Oh, you installed this cartridge of ammunition without checking all the rounds? Well, it was designed to open up and releases snake cables to burrow into your targeting and fire system and potentially work its way up a chain to turn off your comms encryption so the whole vehicle can be taken over.Oh, the last software update of your camera whose only role is to rangefind enemies had some malicious code in it, and now all the automated targeting equipment thinks its hitting while missing wildly? Good thing you can do manual control.The training data used for your IFF AI was scraped from subtly edited videos uploaded from a recent conflict, where an enemy AI made it look like the hostile tanks had certain QR codes in their digital camo, which looks like random noise to human eyes, but the learning algorithm is convinced that those paint jobs mean enemy units . . . and then the software that guides the spraypaint gimbal arms to put on the parade dress paint job put a bunch of those QR codes on your mechs, which caused them to start shooting each other? Okay, maybe we just need someone to hold a joystick and pull a trigger.3) Full sci-fi, though with some brain-body tech links that I might use to have cyber-hallucinations that make things appear supernatural. And sufficiently powerful AI can orchestrate events that seem spooky and unlikely.</blockquote>

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