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RISE OF THE MACHINES: US Army Is Turning To ‘Terminator’-Style Autonomous Robot Soldiers On Battlefield

Over the next few years, the Pentagon is poised to spend almost $1 billion for a range of robots designed to complement combat troops. Beyond scouting and explosives disposal, these new machines will sniff out hazardous chemicals or other agents, perform complex reconnaissance and even carry a soldier’s gear.

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Over the next few years, the Pentagon is poised to spend almost $1 billion for a range of robots designed to complement combat troops. Beyond scouting and explosives disposal, these new machines will sniff out hazardous chemicals or other agents, perform complex reconnaissance and even carry a soldier’s gear.

EDITOR’S NOTE: A robotized device can absolutely make life safer, more productive and more enjoyable. The problem comes when AI progress to such a point that the temptation to allow these robots to begin making decisions on their own becomes unavoidable. Facebook did an AI experiment last year that was quickly shut down when the chatbots suddenly created their own language that the humans running the experiment were not able to understand. That’s how lightning-fast these things can get out of control. Now, replace ‘chatbots’ with autonomous robots armed with military weapons, and you see very quickly the danger in where this is all heading. 

“Within five years, I have no doubt there will be robots in every Army formation,” said Bryan McVeigh, the Army’s project manager for force protection. He touted a record 800 robots fielded over the past 18 months. “We’re going from talking about robots to actually building and fielding programs,” he said. “This is an exciting time to be working on robots with the Army.”

But that’s just the beginning.

The Pentagon has split its robot platforms into light, medium and heavy categories. In April, the Army awarded a $429.1 million contract to two Massachusetts companies, Endeavor Robotics of Chelmsford and Waltham-based QinetiQ North America, for small bots weighing fewer than 25 pounds. This spring, Endeavor also landed two contracts worth $34 million from the Marine Corps for small and mid-sized robots.

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In October, the Army awarded Endeavor $158.5 million for a class of more than 1,200 medium robots, called the Man-Transportable Robotic System, Increment II, weighing less than 165 pounds. The MTRS robot, designed to detect explosives as well as chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear threats, is scheduled to enter service by late summer 2019. The Army plans to determine its needs for a larger, heavier class of robot later this year.

“It’s a recognition that ground robots can do a lot more, and there’s a lot of capabilities that can and should be exploited,” said Sean Bielat, Endeavor’s chief executive officer. Specifically, he points to “the dull, the dirty and the dangerous” infantry tasks as those best suited to robotics.

Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence engine after developers discovered that the AI had created its own unique language that humans can’t understand. Researchers at the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that the chatbots had deviated from the script and were communicating in a new language developed without human input. It is as concerning as it is amazing – simultaneously a glimpse of both the awesome and horrifying potential of AI. source

During combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defense Department amassed an inventory of more than 7,000 robots, with much of the hardware designed to neutralize improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Military brass were trying to quickly solve a vexing problem that was killing troops, but the acquisition strategy led to a motley assortment of devices that trade journal Defense News last year called “a petting zoo of various ground robots.”

This approach also meant that each “pet” was essentially a one-off device used for a single task. The Army’s current approach is to field more inter-operable robots with a common chassis, allowing different sensors and payloads to be attached, along with standardized controllers for various platforms, said McVeigh, a retired Army colonel.

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This is what the Pentagon is developing in battlefield robot technology. 

This strategy is also geared toward affordability. “If we want to change payloads, then we can spend our money on changing the payloads and not having to change the whole system,” he said. While it ramps up to use its newer robots, the Army will retain about 2,500 of the medium and small robots from the older fleet.

Amid their many capacities, none of the current or planned U.S. infantry robots is armed—yet. Armed robots are hardly new, of course, with South Korea deploying sentry gun-bots in the demilitarized zone fronting North Korea and various countries flying drones equipped with a variety of weapons.

“Just strapping a conventional weapon onto a robot doesn’t necessarily give you that much” for ground troops, said Bielat, the Endeavor Robotics CEO. “There is occasional interest in weaponizing robots, but it’s not particularly strong interest. What is envisioned in these discussions is always man-in-the-loop, definitely not autonomous use of weapons.”

Yet, depending on one’s perspective, machines that kill autonomously are either a harbinger of a “Terminator”-style dystopia or a logical evolution of warfare. This new generation of weaponry would be armed and able to “see” and assess a battle zone faster and more thoroughly than a human—and react far more quickly. What happens next is where the topic veers into a moral, perhaps existential, morass.

“It seems inevitable that technology is taking us to a point where countries will face the question of whether to delegate lethal decision-making to machines,” said Paul Scharre, a senior fellow and director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security.

Last year, 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence, including Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, sent a letter to the United Nations urging a ban on lethal autonomous weapons.

“Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter stated, warning of a “Pandora’s box” being opened with such systems.

To date, 26 countries have joined calls for a ban on fully autonomous weapons, including 14 nations in Latin America, according to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Notably absent from this list are nations with robust defense industries that research AI and robotics—countries such as the U.S., Russia, Israel, France, Germany, South Korea and the United Kingdom.

The campaign was launched five years ago by activists alarmed at the prospect of machines wielding “the power to decide who lives or dies on the battlefield.”

“If you buy into the notion that it’s a moral and humanitarian issue—that you have machines making life-and-death decisions on the battlefield—then it’s a very simple issue,” said Steve Goose, director of Human Rights Watch’s arms division and a co-founder of the campaign. “People have a sense of revulsion over this.” source

 

 

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Donald Trump Didn’t Finish The Job As Iran’s IRGC Boasts That Surviving America’s Attacks Has Opened The Door For Islam To Rise Up And Rule The World

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President Trump started a war with Iran that remains wholly unfinished, and that is allowing Tehran to turn defeat into a resounding victory that is energizing them

The fact that Iran’s top military commander Ahmad Vahidi can stand before the Islamic world and boast that Tehran has brought the United States “to its knees” tells you everything you need to know about President Trump’s claim that America had “finished the job.” The job was not finished. Iran was hit, Iran was damaged and Iran was bloodied, but the Islamic regime was left standing—and now it is transforming survival into victory. President Trump has put America in a very dangerous position by not eliminating the Iranian regime, and it is already coming back to haunt him.

“And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.” Zechariah 14:9 (KJB)

Ahmad Vahidi is not speaking like the commander of a defeated nation, he is speaking like the leader of an emboldened Islamic revolution. He is openly declaring that Iran’s battlefield performance proves “Islam can be made to rule the world.” Those are not the words of a government that has been neutralized. Those are the words of a regime that believes it endured America’s best shot and lived to continue the war. Trump attacked Iran’s military machinery but left the revolutionary engine running. The IRGC still commands, the missiles are still flying, and the Strait of Hormuz remains a battlefield. American forces and Gulf infrastructure remain under attack. Tehran’s Islamic leadership remains in power, issuing threats, preaching conquest and promising the arrival of worldwide Islamic government. That is not mission accomplished, that’s an unfinished war.

Iran does not need to defeat the United States conventionally to claim victory. It only needs to survive. Every additional day the regime remains standing allows Tehran to tell the Muslim world that the Great Satan attacked with everything it had and failed to destroy the Islamic Republic. Vahidi is already turning that survival into a recruiting message for jihadists, militias and Islamic revolutionaries around the world. This is the price of fighting a war halfway. Infrastructure can be rebuilt. Missile launchers can be replaced. Nuclear facilities can be reconstructed underground. Commanders can be promoted to replace those who were killed. As long as the Islamic regime and the IRGC remain intact, the threat remains intact. From a military persepctive, that spells potential disaster for America.

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Iran’s leaders are not hiding their objective, they are proclaiming it before the entire world. Islamic rule, Islamic conquest and the overthrow of the existing world order. Tehran believes this war has opened the gates for a global Islamic uprising. America’s political leaders should listen carefully, because Iran is telling us exactly what it intends to do. Trump did not finish the job, he postponed the next phase of it. Iran will rebuild, rearm and return unless the Islamic Republic is permanently dismantled. Anything less merely gives Tehran time to prepare for the next round while presenting its survival as proof that Allah has delivered America into its hands. President Trump, do your job and finish this war with military victory. Anything less is unacceptable, and unAmerican.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Flock Safety Cameras Are Building a Nationwide Surveillance Grid And American Citizens Have Begun To Fight Back

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Flock Safety Cameras Are Building a Nationwide Surveillance Grid That Tracks Innocent Americans While Government Sells Mass Monitoring as Public Safety and Protection

Flock Safety tells Americans that its cameras are about stolen cars, missing children and public safety, but the system records every passing vehicle whether the driver is suspected of a crime or not. Your license plate, vehicle description, location, direction and time of travel are captured, stored and made searchable across a growing network of police departments and government agencies. That is not simply a camera watching an intersection—it is a digital memory capable of reconstructing where ordinary citizens go, when they go there and how often they return. Public safety may be the sales pitch, but mass collection is the product.

“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” Proverbs 15:3 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, the most dangerous part of this system is not what a trustworthy sheriff might do with it today, but what an unaccountable government could do with it tomorrow. Databases built to find car thieves can just as easily identify people attending churches, political rallies, gun shows, medical offices or protests during the next manufactured emergency. Flock cameras are not the mark of the beast, and Bible believers should not confuse modern surveillance technology with the literal fulfillment of Revelation 13. But they are helping construct the culture and infrastructure the coming beast system will require: universal observation, centralized information, artificial-intelligence profiling and a population trained to surrender privacy whenever the government whispers the word “safety.” This is how freedom disappears—not always through soldiers in the streets, but through cameras on poles, databases in the cloud and citizens who insist they have nothing to hide. The issue is not whether these cameras can solve crimes; the issue is whether every innocent American should be tracked like a potential suspect without a warrant, public consent or meaningful accountability. Demand strict limits, short retention periods, transparent audits, real penalties for abuse and judicial oversight before this surveillance grid becomes too large to restrain. The camera may not be the beast, but the Beast architecture is being assembled one pole, one database and one emergency at a time. The Countdown continues toward the rise of the New World Order.

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Pastor Dancan Just Sent A Very Heartfelt Message Of Gratitude To Operation Africa! And The Entire NTEB Family For Our Willingness To Be Used Of God

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God is using each and every one in our NTEB family to work a mighty miracle for Pastor Dancan and the orphans in Kisii, Kenya through Operation Africa!

Operation Africa! has been going at full-speed the last many months, working to accomplish in Kisii, Kenya, what I can only call a true miracle in our midst, and a powerful testimony of what God can accomplish through the body of Christ when we yield ourselves to His will. In 1872, evangelist D.L .Moody was meeting with a group of his fellow preachers as he listen to Henry Varley say these words – “The world has yet to see what God will do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him.” As those words flooded over him, Moody said within himself, “by God’s help, I aim to be that man”. Today, the NTEB family is that man, and I want to share something with you that will truly encourage you here in these last days.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 (KJB)

We started on this journey 3 months ago, and it began with a relatively simple request for some Bibles from Kenya. 200 Bibles became 400, then 600, then a thousand, and then a little over 1,100. The sudden appearence of the preserved word of God in a place where it had not previously existed sparked revival, and Pastor Dancan’s church grew by 30% within weeks. I began to disciple him, teaching him right division of the scripture, sending books he needed for his spiritual education. Then I noticed the smiles had left the children’s faces, malaria and typhoid from drinking river water had sickened them. So we sent enough medicine to heal all 84 orphans. To solve the river water problem, we sent a 10,000 liter water tank, and filled it twice with clean drinking water. After that, we built them a well, 60 feet into the earth, hooked it up to the water tank, and solved their water problem. No more malaria and typhoid, but then we found out about their sleeping condition. Cardboard on a dirt floor and bedbugs that left welts on their little bodies. We purchased the proper chemicals to kill the bedbugs, threw away the cardboard, and gave each and every orphan a brand-new mattress with a nice, clean blanket. The photo at the top of this article shows you some of the new bedding. This morning, Pastor Dancan sent me a message that brought tears to my eyes, and I want to share it with all of you.

He writes – “Pastor, words cannot fully express how grateful we are for everything you all have done for our orphanage and our church. In just a few months of knowing you, we have witnessed a transformation that we never imagined possible.

Our orphanage has changed tremendously. The children have experienced love, hope, care, and a brighter future because of your kindness and generosity. Things that once seemed impossible are now becoming a reality before our eyes.

You have not only supported us financially; you have touched lives, restored hope, and reminded us that God can send the right people at the right time. Every time we look at the children, we can see the impact of your love and sacrifice.

Pastor, we may never have enough words to thank you. What you all have done for us will forever remain in our hearts. We pray that God continues to bless you, strengthen you, and multiply everything you have given to others. We are truly grateful, and we thank God for bringing you into our lives. ❤️🙏”

For everyone who prays for Operation Africa!, he wrote that letter to you. For everyone who donates any amount, large or small, he wrote that letter to you. Pastor Dancan, his entire congregation, everyone of those orphans and everyone who lives in his town have watched God do a miracle in their midst. You talk about a testimony of the power of God to do the impossible through the body of Christ, there it is. Thanks to each and everyone one of you in our NTEB family, this work continues in Operation Africa!, the Gospel Witness Billboard Program, the Free Bible Program and Bibles Behind Bars. Please keep all of this in your prayers as the Lord brings it to your remembrance, and come help us to finish strong. We need you!!

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