What happens when machines start making their own decisions?
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January 2011: Robots Bite Back
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The Terminator Scenario article is not working.
I'll agree -- The terminator scenario is not working.
it worked for me what search engine are you using
What a wake-up call! The article "Robots Bite Back" in the first issue for 2011, shed some much needed light on the subject of robots used for combat in the the military. I read the story two days ago while deployed here in northern Afghanistan to the sound of Predator drones being launched overhead. Modern combat technology has advanced in long leaps and bounds, but there seems to be very little orginized ethic behind the design and application of these related systems. The facts suggested like robotic autonomy, a third of the force being robots in the near future, human/robotic experimentation using drugs, coupled with failures like the massacre in South Africa, really put the subject in perspective. I personally believe that a fundamental line has been crossed here. Robots should not be able to decide wether or not they should engage human life in combat. If anything, EMT crews, firefighters, surgeons, and applications where human life is either saved or protected in a non-violent manner, seems like the right choice here. I hope to see the wise and observant stand and regulate autonomic robotic application and useage. Besides, the basic element of war is defined as, paraphrased- at least two humans engaged in a fight to the death. Robots do not comply.