[toddausauras]

Phew! I was worried. Now that this iron-clad pledge has been taken I can sleep with BOTH eyes closed!

[WMarshal]

“Give a monkey a stick and inevitably he’ll beat another monkey to death with it.”

[Hodar]

So that simply means we will be completely defenseless when a hostile foreign country weaponizes their robots. Just because YOU won’t, doesn’t mean they won’t.

[texas booster]

I would expect that China signed the No Armed Robots pledge the first.

Because they are so trustworthy.

[dynachrome]

See “Blade Runner”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That means they are already operational.

[DannyTN]

You are experiencing a car accident.

[DannyTN]

You are experiencing a car accident.

[Mr. Jeeves]

They will just sell the military a “weaponizable” version and subcontractors will handle the messy details.

[Tellurian]

If it can be weaponized, it will be weaponized.

Computers alone have been weaponized to manipulate and take advantage. Ethics are a Potemkin facade with ᶢ∞ᶢᴸᴱ & ᶠᴬᶜᴱᴮ∞ᴷ. Computerized mechanisms will manipulate and take advantage with mechanical means: force.

[dynachrome]

Also, a decent movie (Philip K. Dick based. “Second Variety”) with the guy who played ‘Robocop’.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

“Screamers”

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.

[T.B. Yoits]

Too late. The first human to be killed by a robot was in 1979.

https://www.grunge.com/1020405/the-true-story-of-the-first-human-killed-by-a-robot/

[SpaceBar]

Heckuva time to get all preachy with the technology/ethics thing.

That’s like AI people swearing it will never be used to recognize faces.

[catnipman]

“Some leading robot makers are pledging not to weaponize them”

but not all ... besides the chinese have probably already done it ... the russkies would if they could buy the electronics, which they can’t right now ...

[VTenigma]

If you want Skynet, this is how you get Skynet.

[jimwatx]

When Google started out there motto was “don’t be evil” or something to that effect, but as you can see that didn’t work out. Too much money in being evil, and Google wasn’t about to give that up. And neither will these robotic makers.

[DannyTN]

I, for one, look forward to the day when the Hot Crazy matrix is overweighted in the top right corner due to the abundance of slightly maniacle fantasy robots.

[JustaTech]

Meaningless. There is this thing called the aftermarket, and there are these other things called hackers.

The future is full of killer robots, don’t doubt for a second.

[asinclair]

Where is Susan Calvin when we need her?

[dfwgator]