[RomanSoldier19]

[SaveFerris]

After it becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m.?

[higgmeister]

Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

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[Magnum44]

[Tench_Coxe]

"The biggest change in the Defense Department’s new version of its 2012 doctrine on lethal autonomous weapons is a clearer statement that it is possible to build and deploy them safely and ethically but not without a lot of oversight."

Consider Lindsey Graham's alleged exhortation to Capitol Police "you have guns, use them" on January 6th, it doesn't afford much confidence about the oversight part.

[Navy Patriot]

When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy...

Anytime it wants to.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Patriot, as deployed in the Gulf War I, had certain modes where it would automatically engage, one of which was when it felt threatened by an anti-radiation (anti-radar) missile. Two marine pilots were flying together without IFF (Identification friend or foe) active. One had a malfunction and separated to land on an airfield defended by a Patriot battery. When he separated from his wingman, he looked to the Patriot radar like a separating missile. When he flew an approach directly at the radar he looked like an anti radiation missile. His wingman decided to follow him. It looked like a salvo of two anti radiation missiles. Patriot did what it was programmed to do. Thereafter, the air boss was the E-3 AWACS, and Patriot could only engage a target if authorized by the air boss.

[Paal Gulli]

There was never a snowball's chance in hell DoD was going to get invested in robots and not make them autonomous and give 'em guns.

I had a conversation with some guys from Talon almost 20 years ago and way back then they said Big Army already had given them a contract to make their tracked EOD robot (below) autonomous and mount an M-60 machinegun on it.