A report “Losing Humanity”—co-produced by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic came out two weeks ago. It had flaws but raised a valid issue. With advances in AI the logical progression is to move from dumb or passive machines that are little more than guns with motion sensors (Raytheon’s Phalanx gun system) to robots that actively search and destroy. It's a slippery rope when you create autonomous kill-bots. of course the argument will be made that it will save lives. who will be held accountable when innocent people are killed? Indeed accidents have already happened. The South African military were doing a drill with an automated AA gun and it just started shooting the soldiers. 9 died The U.S. should lead the ban on fully autonomous weapons.
In a perfect world, I would agree. Sad truth is that sure, we can as a nation take the high road, but there are still people that think it is ok to strap a bomb to their 11 year old children and kill random others..
Another concern is with the incease in sophistication of viruses these robots could become infected and uncontrollable. Unfortunately, like nukes, landmines and poisonous gas, governments likely won't act until after these robots are used in war.
I cannot imagine a robot with the clap and what ramifications there could be, but I'm willing to keep an open mind.
The US leads the world in developement and production of killer robots. They could be used against citizens at home just as easily as abroad.
No stopping the Rapture. It's either us or China to build these things. [video=youtube;cTLMjHrb_w4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLMjHrb_w4[/video]
Not on an individual basis, but certainly for Freedom of Speech in the long run and Freedom in general.
Eventually we will have machines with AI building better machines with better AI. Maybe we'll watch them explore the universe and become the true ambassadors of Earth? We'll be a like cats and dogs compared to our intergalactic genius robot overlords.
