I honestly think that in the future, human soldiers and vehicles will mostly be replaced by robots and AIs as they become more and more cheaper and effective. But at the same time I still think that human space marines sounds more cool and badass.
Any ideas for this? Fear of AI rebellion? EMP? Employment and citizenship?
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Cost, flexibility and improvisation would be the main arguments for human soldiers.
the enemy IS an ai that can take control over the robots. so humans have to be used as to not give the enemy more soldiers.
Cost; the investment of a meat monkey is still viably less than a chromehound
Morality; the populus still deems war to be best handled by men, not machines
Beuracracy; there are just so many things to change it hasn't happened yet, on the whole
AIs won the inevitable civil war and are using humans for many undesirable task, one of which is fighting wars with other galactic civilizations.
Military Humans are born into their caste and their families often serve in specific branches for generations.
Simple drones obviously find their use too, but partaking in a fight on a tactical scale is considered barbaric and disgusting among the ruling class.
Robots in humanoid form are notorious for being incredibly unstable. Putting it on tracks would be a far better solution.
That said, it seems inevitable, as a limitation of the machinery themselves rather than the AI, are going to be unstable and/or unwieldy, and that human soldier receives better and more efficient equipment furthers his use in warfare.
Powered exoskeletons are all but a grasp from us. It will likely not make us space marine power armor or HALO armor, but it might us put us on par with something like STALKER's power armor (pic related). Some for sensory technology that allows a human, who generally has a higher reaction time than a bot, could use to their advantage. CRIPSER, though not fully tested, is soon to be within giving humans almost Eldar like longevity and agility.
One of my personally theories would be creating a synergy of human and machine, with no loss of the person's humanity and all the benefits of cybernetics. Hell, maybe even modification to one's mind to surpass AI (but implementing AI in of the person themselves). A pure robotic soldier would be not as high performance as a exceptional human operator.
If you have human intelligence AI that is easy to replace, there is no excuse.
Probably the best way to get around this is to make the difference between AI and humans nonexistent, i.e. AI are artificial persons and humans can make digital backups.
Human soldiers used in conjuction with robot soldiers, with most robotic units being lead by a human officer.
The method of FTL travel fucks up AIs somehow, maybe they go insane or get possessed by demons or something.
advantages of a sci-fi level AI
- flawless multitasking with many many drones, thats nothing a human squad could replicate without very very post-human mind meld type stuff
- extremely fast info processing: tactical decisions, analysis, think simple stuff like trajectory predictions from the angle of a gun from an image, a human mind cant handle that much information without, again, becoming rather inhuman