Old Science Fiction makes its return. Even Kelly Johnson (from the Skunk Works) saw this coming.
Posted on 02/23/2009 7:40:50 AM PST by Notoriously Conservative
From the Times of London:
"Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.
Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."
The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.
Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots."
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Old Science Fiction makes its return. Even Kelly Johnson (from the Skunk Works) saw this coming.
OK, then we have nothing to worry about.... unless you're named Sarah Connor.
“Klatu, birada nicto.”
He’s back!!! (Also, you have something to worry about if you are Sarah Connor OR a citizen of CA.)
I, for one, welcome our new metal overlords.
See below...
Robots indeed! We've got plenty of trouble enough with the live ones!
If the robots look like Number Six from Battlestar Galactica, I’m game!
I’d prefer robots to what we have now.
Maybe that is the general idea.
That movie was so funny. An alien spacecraft lands in Washington DC and it is guarded by two soldiers.....and they were smokers!
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