That is a good point. I’m not sure if the AI hype cycle is strong enough that bragging about your less-than-lethal weapons you sell to schools being AI piloted would outweigh the obvious danger of having AI controlling less-than-lethal weapons in a school environment.
I’m just thinking from a cost perspective, they aren’t going to want to pay enough people to pilot 30 drones individually even just for school hours, they’re going to have one person piloting several of them at once when they deploy, and they’ll be shifting focus between the various drones they control while the automation handles the ones not being manually controlled at that moment, much like the remote assistant drivers for some self-driving car companies.
I would be more willing to bet that there are between 4-8 people who will pilot the drones, and they are able to control them at any of the X amount of schools that have made the ransom payments for the system. They probably had the one ‘professional drone racer’ do the demonstration, flying the drones quickly through the school to wow the school board, and then will have bubba mcpilot sitting at a desk the majority of the time.
So each of these 4-8 folks will control one drone, but it can be at any of all the schools.
That’s only 4-8 active drones at a time though. The article talked about deployments with dozens of drones in a given school. Sure you want to keep some in reserve but at some point from the perspective of the drone company it makes too much financial sense to have one person piloting more than one drone at a time since the technology exists.
Miltech companies have been developing fully autonomous drones for combat scenarios since jammers can prevent manual control and are currently used in combat zones for that exact reason. Mithril Defense which is selling these drones also makes combat drones. I’d be very surprised if they actually maintain 1to1 drone operator to drone ratios for any amount of time
That is a good point. I’m not sure if the AI hype cycle is strong enough that bragging about your less-than-lethal weapons you sell to schools being AI piloted would outweigh the obvious danger of having AI controlling less-than-lethal weapons in a school environment.
I’m just thinking from a cost perspective, they aren’t going to want to pay enough people to pilot 30 drones individually even just for school hours, they’re going to have one person piloting several of them at once when they deploy, and they’ll be shifting focus between the various drones they control while the automation handles the ones not being manually controlled at that moment, much like the remote assistant drivers for some self-driving car companies.
I would be more willing to bet that there are between 4-8 people who will pilot the drones, and they are able to control them at any of the X amount of schools that have made the
ransompayments for the system. They probably had the one ‘professional drone racer’ do the demonstration, flying the drones quickly through the school to wow the school board, and then will have bubba mcpilot sitting at a desk the majority of the time.So each of these 4-8 folks will control one drone, but it can be at any of all the schools.
That’s only 4-8 active drones at a time though. The article talked about deployments with dozens of drones in a given school. Sure you want to keep some in reserve but at some point from the perspective of the drone company it makes too much financial sense to have one person piloting more than one drone at a time since the technology exists.
Miltech companies have been developing fully autonomous drones for combat scenarios since jammers can prevent manual control and are currently used in combat zones for that exact reason. Mithril Defense which is selling these drones also makes combat drones. I’d be very surprised if they actually maintain 1to1 drone operator to drone ratios for any amount of time