CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality

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Post by leopoldj » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality
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Re: CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality

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Post by tencentshill » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

Paywall.

"It's lethal!"

"Does it target accurately?"

"It's lethal!"

Re: CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 4:44 PM UTC

tencentshill wrote: post #2

Paywall. "It's lethal!" "Does it target accurately?" "It's lethal!"

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Re: CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality

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Post by leopoldj » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

tencentshill wrote: post #2

Paywall. "It's lethal!" "Does it target accurately?" "It's lethal!"

> Paywall

Mr. Ratcliffe gave a speech in the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. In summary: "The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes".

Re: CIA director gives chilling account of AI's battlefield lethality

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Post by SanjayMehta » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

leopoldj wrote: post #4

tencentshill wrote: post #2

Paywall. "It's lethal!" "Does it target accurately?" "It's lethal!"

> Paywall Mr. Ratcliffe gave a speech in the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. In summary: "The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes".

There was a documentary where a Ukrainian said the life expectancy of their own recruits was 4 hours on the front lines.

Sounds like ratcliffe was inspired by that comment and is now exaggerating.