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science-fiction scribes may have envisioned a future of warfare shaped by brain implants and performing enhancing drugs, or a suit of powered armor straight out of Starship Troopers, but according to US Special Operations Command, the next generation of armed conflict will be fought (and, hopefully, won) with a relatively simple concept: the “hyper enabled operator.”

socom.mil/st/Pages/JATF.aspx

The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces.

wired.com/story/us-military-hy

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I don't know what future AI will be like, but with current iterations there is no point at which I would trust them to accurately distinguish friend from foe, or military from civilian, or even human from animal or machine, when life and death are on the line.

@ecksmc They'd never be able to match Heinlein's Mobile Infantry power armor.

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