Tracy Mumford
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9,240 appearances
128 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard yesterday
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In Ukraine, the Times is covering the emergence of an experimental new weapon on the battlefield: fully autonomous drones, guided by artificial intelligence.
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Both Russia and Ukraine have been using AI and drones to some extent before.
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With those older models, the drone charts its own way to a target that a human has picked.
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Now the latest generation of AI powered drones pick their own targets.
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Experts say that the weapons systems can be trained on thousands of images to recognize categories like military truck or person, and then use cameras to home in and strike them.
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A former Ukrainian defense minister told the Times that over the past few months, the Ukrainian military has been testing entirely autonomous AI systems on Russian targets.
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And recently, the wreckage from a Russian drone attack showed evidence that the Kremlin is using them too.
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Analysis of debris from a strike in Zaporizha found that a Russian drone had NVIDIA mini computers on board.
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Ukrainian officials said it appeared to be targeting a gas station before it crashed into the wall of an apartment building, killing three people.
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More broadly, when it comes to the technology in general, those in support of it say it has the potential to be more accurate than, say, dropping bombs from a plane or relying on a human drone pilot.
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Some actually think all weapons should be required to have AI systems in the future.
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But opponents of these weapons, including human rights groups and the International Red Cross, say they may be more prone to mistakes or violations of international law, like failing to distinguish between soldiers and civilians.
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The Ukrainian air defense commander in the town where the Russian drone exploded warned that we may be entering an entirely new era of warfare, saying, quote, In a few years we will be living in a terminator.
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movie.
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It's no joke.
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Machines are making decisions to strike.
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And finally, in California, engineers at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park spent years trying to pull off the impossible.
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They wanted to build a new roller coaster that would loop and spin and hurl people around at 72 miles per hour and barely make a sound.
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That way the rumbling and roaring of the coaster wouldn't disrupt filming at Universal's own movie studios, which are right next door.
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and it would spare the residential neighborhoods that are right near the park from all the noise.
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