November 25, 200817 yr Interesting subject matter, for sure ... Lethal autonomous systems: The ethics of programming robots for war
November 25, 200817 yr I suppose the author talks about "intelligent and autonomous" mechanical beings, capables of own ethical decisions. We are far of this situation. Our war "robots" are only semiautonomous or remote controlled drones. And this and other relationated topics are well know themes in traditional Science Fiction, as most evident in the "Robots" cycle of Isaac Asimov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics mmmm, now I remember the up to date digital cameras have face reconigtion sofware, and can detect a face smiling and shot when we're smiling, and in a picture with some subjets, the camera can detect the (previously registred) family or friends faces, and shot the picture only when the registred faces smiled. May be this is a shape of the things to come in artificial intelligence.
November 25, 200817 yr Author From the article: "It should be noted that I do not foresee the advent of robot warriors sweeping across the countryside as evidenced in science fiction, but rather that these machines will be embedded with our troops for highly specialized mission-specific tasks in support of human operations, such as counter-sniper or building clearing missions."
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