Rogue 'Terminator' robots which can kill without human orders could become reality in just a [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | February 14, 2016 | Shari Miller

[C19fan]

Killer robots that can execute without human intervention will become a reality within years unless there is a global agreement to ban them, warns a leading scientist. Wendell Wallach, an ethicist at Yale University, will today call on the US government to outlaw such machines on the basis they violate international humanitarian law. Wallach also warns that technology has become so advanced that a robot capable of killing humans on its own volition will soon become a possibility - much like the rogue machines seen in Arnold Schwarzenegger's hit film, The Terminator.

[DennisR]

Really? Who is going to keep these little murderers plugged into the power line? Just another wacko author fomenting unrealistic fears.

[Mr. Mojo]

a robot capable of killing humans on its own volition will soon become a possibility

Yul Brynner in Westworld (1973) immediately comes to mind.

But so do those robot barmaids....

[Mamzelle]

When they invent a robot that unloads the dishwasher, maybe I’ll be concerned.

[Lazamataz]

I dunno. I suspect that Revelations in the Bible is very real and that the AntiChrist will be an Artificial Intelligence. What better technology for Satan to take over than this, a soulless intelligence?

[Lazamataz]

I want a robot to make me a Goldarn SAMMICH.

[Scrambler Bob]

unless there is a global agreement to ban them,
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Kind of like that nuke deal with Iran???

[PreciousLiberty]

“Really? Who is going to keep these little murderers plugged into the power line? Just another wacko author fomenting unrealistic fears.”

One possibility is internal combustion, or a hybrid design. When in electric mode, such robots should be nearly silent.

Another possibility is that LENR will pan out, in which case all bets are off and electric robots with multiyear runtimes without refueling will become a reality.

In either case, there is nothing constraining the design to be a bipedal, humanlike form factor. I would think something low-slung on tracks, with a sensor mast that can raise and lower would work better. Some designs might be larger, up to and including a tank form factor.

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[itsahoot]

I want a robot to make me a Goldarn SAMMICH.

Closer than you think Laz. You will see them first in Fast Food joints. Unfortunately the most likely robot to soon appear in homes besides the Roomba will be sex robots. Japan has a big head start in this area.

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There are people out there who spend a whole lot of money on sex dolls. The more money, the more realistic. And now, a new element is being developed in a particular line of sex dolls that could animate the dolls. The creator of RealDoll is on the forefront of developing a convincing AI sex doll, and we're a little bit scared about it.

[PLMerite]

Lesbian robots! Yummy!

[Billthedrill]

They set a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chaulk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.

Opening lines of Count Zero by William Gibson, 1986

It's really hard to write hard science fiction these days. By the time you get it published, it's science reality.

[Larry Lucido]

The Bill O’Reilly doll will make you a falafel.

[blueunicorn6]

We just need more Blade Runners to help retire robots.

[blueunicorn6]

That’s why you don’t make invincible robots.

You make cheap robots that destroy themselves if anything but a human tries to repair them.

[fhayek]

Danger! Danger!

[ETL]

In this case, more like “This does not compute!, but can you please do it again...”

[camle]

band them? works real well with crack don’t it.