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New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-calling-them-kill-bots-is-a-bad-first-step dept.

jakosc writes "The Register has a short commentary about a proposed new set of laws of robotics for war robots by John S Canning of the Naval Surface Warfare Centre. Unlike Asimov's three laws of robotics Canning proposes (pdf) that we should 'Let machines target other machines and let men target men.' Although this sounds OK in principle, 'a robot could decide under Mr Canning's rules, to target a weapon system such as an AK47 for destruction on its own initiative, requiring no permission from a human. If the person holding it was thereby killed, that would be collateral damage and the killer droid would be in the clear.'"

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  1. Re:No by Nossie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "If the Celts that are around today are the same ones that were around to get the crap beaten out of them a thousand years ago, then guess what, the Romans are fine we just call them Italians now"

    Scotland was one of the few if not the only country in Europe to never actually be taken over by the Romans... so much so the Romans built *Hadrian's* Wall to keep us out rather than in.. we lost yet we won. Or did we win and win? I hear it was quite fun pillaging England.

    The English never actually fully took over Scotland either and were booted out of the country -- that war we won... then we married into the English royal family and 'lost'

    I think both of you have compelling points but in Scotlands case we still have some very real Scots and Gallic speakers in our country and that would improve to 'Welsh standards' if the current 'English' schooling system didn't demand they taught us fricking English and French.

    If you want to blame anyone for breeding the Celt out the Scottish it would be the English not the Romans - but no more than Corporate America has done for the world.

    The way things are going in this country I can see the SNP (Scottish National Party) winning the due election and Scotland will be independent again within a few years... whether we'll have the same success as Ireland as an independent country will remain to be seen. I wonder if England will give us some of the money back they *stole* from our oil bearing years before selling the assets off to America.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4567138.stm