[Ignatz]

If war morphs into robots fighting robots, wouldn't that be a GOOD thing? Fewer people dying, and all?
And I think that would eventually lead to fewer wars because there would be no point to it.

Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Terminator 2 comes to mind....

These things could be networked... and hacked. Or they could be autonomous. Brave New World.

[TheRobb7]

[KarlInOhio]

Someone needs his subscription to the SciFi channel cut off.

[cripplecreek]

If war morphs into robots fighting robots, wouldn't that be a GOOD thing?

You would think so but I suspect it would become a perpetual thing. After all, wars end when people get tired of dying or there's no one left to kill.

Perpetual robot war would do nothing but drain treasuries and I'm not sure even that would end war in a global economy.

[Sam's Army]

Zombies, giant pythons, killer robots.

Pick your poison.

[steve-b]

[BibChr]

Well, yeah.

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

"If war morphs into robots fighting robots, wouldn't that be a GOOD thing?

There are certainly dangers involved but if it helps "keep the lid on" the Radical Raghead Islamic Fundamentalists who want to kill everything on earth that does not subscribe to their twisted, perverted, false god, false religion, and false prophet, it may not be such a bad thing...

[BibChr]

[J40000]

“..Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots...”

I immediately thought of Yul Brenner in Westworld!
-The killer robot who just keeps on coming after you!

[mad_as_he$$]

In this time line Skynet goes online April 19, 2011. it becomes self aware on April 21 - Judgment Day.

[Vaquero]

[3Lean]

If this war morphs into our robots killing jihadists, that would be a good thing. More of them dying and fewer of ours, that is how wars are ended.

[kromike]

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists...

Not if you duct tape a bunch of bacon and playboy centerfold pics to the outside.

Like Holy Water to a Vampire...

[hedgetrimmer]

How to survive a robot uprising

[GingisK]

If war morphs into robots fighting robots, wouldn't that be a GOOD thing? Fewer people dying, and all?

War should be waged by people so that they understand full well what they are doing to each other. Machines wouls experience no emotions when they go out and mercilessly kill people.

Bear in mind we are not talking about machine-vs-machine fights. The idea is to engage the human enemy without casulaties.

[cogitator]

[redpoll]

I would imagine people thought the same things about the implementation of iron swords, crossbows, catapaults, flintlocks, the repeating rifle, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, zeppelins, nuclear weapons, missiles, and energy beam weaponry.

Robots would simply change strategy. The human impulse to fight would remain.

[Reeses]

War has always been the driver of "bleeding cutting edge" technology. Major new technologies are at first too expensive except for national defense. Military purchases quickly drive down the cost until the technology is mainstream. Warbots will soon become workerbots. Major leaps in technology will be needed to power the future economy as the US population ages and the entitlement spending ponzi scheme comes home to roost.

The reason humans are the most evolved animal is because of the unnaturally high evolutionary pressure from war. Now robots have begun this hyper-evolution. To stop this from happening would freeze technology and destroy the future wealth of America. It's very important to understand the key role that war plays in driving technology.

[prophetic]

The likes of the Iranian president, Hamas, Hizbullah, Al Queda, etc presents a far more danger to the world by several orders of magnitudes compared to a few 'Killer Robots'.

Robots are mere machines; whereas humans are sentient beings with freewill & autonomy to do as they will.