[Ophiucus]

By spraying bullets and explosives at everything within reach for days. I can think of a few places to drop them in.

Sounds like a job for a bomb. But if a robot is spraying bullets and explosives at everything, what if you want to limit the target? What if you want to retask or call off the mission and software freezes? What if the situation changes on the ground - the target is using human shields and major split second rethinking on the scene is needed.

No robot or computer today or in the next ten years can do that. That requires a human mind.

Jessica Lynch. I'd rather send a bot.

Lynch's unit got lost - what happens if a critical supply unit or weapons system gets lost while under robot control - so far, they couldn't find their way back on track. Would they select the next best target that fits the programming? Blow away a noncombatant group? Or would troops moving on the front line requiring a critical resupply through a storm be SOL because the robot couldn't handle the changing conditions of weather and chaotic battlefield movements. Humans can. No robot could have maintained the frenzy of the Cannonball Express of WWII.

[archy]

What if the situation changes on the ground - the target is using human shields and major split second rethinking on the scene is needed.

Neca ecos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet

[PRND21]

Lynch's unit got lost - what happens if a critical supply unit or weapons system gets lost while under robot control

No one dies, or worse. People and reasoning are needed in war. But not for everything.

No robot or computer today or in the next ten years can do that.

DARPA could use your ESP.