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It opens up entirely new possibilities for things that you can do—where you can go into battle or do a terrorist attack with zero risk to yourself, and you can also do it anonymously, because if some drones show up and start killing people somewhere you have no idea who sent them. [...] One of the main factors that limits wars today is that people have skin in the game. [...] Politicians don’t want to see body bags coming home, and even a lot of terrorists don’t want to get killed.
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AI Verified Verified: the VICE article published July 27, 2015 attributes both quoted passages to Max Tegmark. It contains the first passage ending “you have no idea who sent them,” and later quotes him saying “One of the main factors that limits wars today is that people have skin in the game” and “Politicians don’t want to see body bags coming home, and even a lot of terrorists don’t want to get killed.” The user’s [...] correctly represents omitted intervening text, so the quote is authentic and verbatim apart from those omissions. ([vice.com](https://www.vice.com/en/article/thousands-of-scientists-say-we-need-a-global-ban-on-autonomous-weapons/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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