Posted on 02/14/2022 5:03:07 PM PST by devane617
Lethal autonomous weapons systems demand careful consideration but nightmare scenarios of the future won't become reality anytime soon, says a UNSW Canberra military ethicist.
The term 'killer robots' conjures up images of sci-fi scenarios where wars are being fought by Terminator-like soldiers, but according to UNSW Canberra military ethicist Deane-Peter Baker, it's not quite that scary or cinematic.
In fact, killer robots, or lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), may actually save lives on the battlefield.
Associate Professor Baker's latest book, "Should we Ban Killer Robots?," draws from his experience on the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (IPRAW) from 2017–19.
IPRAW is an international network of researchers tasked with providing non-partisan guidance to the national delegations engaged in the UN debate over whether or not to ban or regulate LAWS.
"This book is my attempt to pull together my views on this topic, which have emerged from my time as an IPRAW panelist and other subsequent policy-focused work on this topic," A/Prof. Baker said.
He explained that there are two main arguments for banning LAWS. One focuses on the potential consequences of allowing LAWS to be used in war.
Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Ban this, ban land mines. Infernal devices are old news.
I have long had the belief that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US should have announced that only we would ever have atomic weapons. And we would use them for only one reason: we would nuke the capital of any country that tried to test an atomic weapon. Even the UK. Queen Elizabeth tries to make a nuke? We destroy London. So ... USSR stands down, China stands down, everybody stands down. There is never a Cold War with the threat of nuclear annihilation because we ensure that it cannot happen.
Killer robots? Let’s make them so that we can tell all the other countries that they will face armies of killer robots of they try to make killer robots. The purpose of Killer Robots? To make sure that no one ever uses Killer Robots.
Let’s ban banners.
The Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, the majority of Drug Cartels, Grumpy Greta and several Soros Controlled fake Think Tanks all
DEMAND that America stop all research and development of Killer Robots Right Here, Right NOW!!
Not sure.
Can we deploy them against real, actual murderers and violent criminals? Government murderers and violent criminals as well?
Ask Sarah Conner.
If the bad guys have them, we will need them too...
Like you said.
Correct. To me, the real problem is at some time they will get a mind of their own.
We already have killer robots. Self-guiding missiles and torpedoes.
About as much chance of banning robotic killing as there is of banning war itself.
We shall set them upon our adversaries in deadly swarms. And they us.
What could possibly go wrong?
Autonomous cars aren’t working out so well so why would anyone trust a weapons platform.
See the short story "Second Variety" by Phillip K. Dick.
Reminds me of the Hound in Fahrenheit 451.
They’re coming. Can you imagine the rules liberals will write for these robo cops?
There are plenty of people who will program and use them for evil. Just saying, the risk of technology being used for bad ends is inevitable, whether the bot chooses it, or a human does.
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