Posted on 10/08/2013 10:36:55 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
What could possible go wrong?
They will probably test it on elderly at some national park.
Cylon Raider, Mk. 1.
It seems not a matter of what could go wrong but who would take responsibility. Pols/bureaucrats love this sort of scheme as no one in particular can be blamed for mishaps. Its the Washington Way...
Rise of the machines.
NRA bumper stickers will be a likely target.
“Revolt of the Drones” coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
It’ll be back.
no thread on the monster truck accident at an air show that killed 4+ in Mexico??
Just great
Okay lets follow that logic to its conclusion. Lets say I am a drone and my mission is to stop a family from getting from Point A to Point B because they are carrying secret intel to Point B. Do I: (a) shoot and kill the father first because he is the most capable of repelling my attack, (b) interecept the person carrying the intel first and just try to get away without harming the civilian “spies”, (c) shoot the mother first to get everyone to stop forward progress so that I can just shoot them all in a hudded mass then take the intel, or (d) let the nerd kid supervising me use manual override and laugh histerically as he plays a live “video game”.../s
Drones making lethal decisions on their own? They do already, they are called democrat voters and I would argue their decisions are pretty damn lethal.
All the charm and fairness of a police camera on the side of the road taking a picture of you speeding.
Hitler would’ve been tickled pink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
[What could possible go wrong?]
This is the ultimate weapon. The administration could deploy these things secretly and deny ownership. If the victims were somehow able to prove that the killer robots came from the U.S. the president could say the machines were mechanical free agents responsible for their own acts.
Can’t wait to see the results of code glitches on this one. Gives a whole new meaning to “Blue Screen Of Death”.
I believe there was a short story in a science-fiction magazine a few years back, which called the drones “heli-cops” or just “hellcops”. These self-actuated custodians of law enforcement began by targeting individuals that fought back when accosted by a mugger on the street, coming to the defense of the mugger. It escalated further when these automatons began targeting the driver of a car when a pedestrian was struck on a right-turn on red, firing a taser-like beam (with the capability of being turned up to lethal levels). Finally, these hellcops were targeting cows eating grass in the pasture.
Skynet is becoming operative. Soon, it shall become self-aware.
... and on that note, I have good news --
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