Rapid drop of the recruitment rates may accelerate hyper-automation and privatization of the US army
Younger
generations have been 'trained' by the dominant culture to act in
more 'pragmatic' terms in the arena of a brutal economic cynicism. As
the fight for a place in this system becomes harder and harder, more
and more people are being left out of the game. More and more of the
them struggle to survive.
Despite
these perfect conditions for the US empire components to exploit the
growing numbers of the 'brigades of the poor’, not everything went
well for the empire.
After
9/11 disaster, the Internet, the WikiLeaks, the alternative sources
of information, the whistleblowers and the powerful combination of
all these, brought some unprecedented changes. They managed to
destroy the deceptive facade of the US deep state narratives,
propagated through the corporate media.
With all
the big lies, war crimes, war propaganda exposed to great extent,
millennials and new generations are not easy targets for "war on
terror"-type narratives.
As a
consequence, it appears that the US army increasingly struggles to
recruit new personnel to satisfy the ongoing hunger of the deep state
for more imperialist wars.
This
situation may accelerate the process of the US army hyper-automation
and full-scale privatization.
We may
see autonomous robots in the battlefield much sooner than we thought.
The developments in the AI sector are already quite impressive. The
Pentagon, or big private investments, may direct tons of money to the
related companies in order to build robots capable to replace human
soldiers, even in the decision-making field.
Yet,
privatized, fully-automated armies could become a real nightmare and
the situation may get easily out of control. According to the Daily
Star:
Criminal
gangs and terrorists could get their hands on murderous artificial
intelligence to hunt down enemy targets. And by being controlled at
length, they could make it impossible for the culprits to be traced.
Computer engineer Dr Subhash Kak warned the parts needed to assemble
killer robots will prove "not difficult" to buy on the
black market. And before long he said the robots themselves will
available to buy, ready to carry out mass murder upon instruction.
The Oklahoma University lecturer told Daily Star Online: "The
technology for human assisted killer robots is already here.”
As
mentioned
already, we see a rise of private armies that act in various
battlefields, like in Ukraine, exactly because in the absence of the
nation-states and the national armies, someone has to protect the
natural resources and the new means of production for the dominant
elite.
But when
the arms industry will fully automate the new weapons, private armies
will only serve as assistance to fully automated war machines. We
already see the test fields of the weapons of future˙ the drones in
Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
It's not
accidental that the arms industries demonstrate new weapons designed
to be used inside urban areas for suppression of potential riots.
There will be no "outside enemy" in the future. The threat
for the dominant system will come from the interior, the big urban
centers. Soldier-robots will protect worker-robots and resources.
In the
whole story, very few bother to examine a fundamental problem: where
will all these robots find the necessary amount of energy to satisfy
their functional needs? In the prospect of fully autonomous robots,
capable of making their own decisions, the answer to this question
may be proved even more terrifying.
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