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Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
Tesla boss Elon Musk is among a group of 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies who are calling on the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons. "Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend," the experts warn in an open letter released Monday...
"Unlike other potential manifestations of AI, which still remain in the realm of science fiction, autonomous weapons systems are on the cusp of development right now and have a very real potential to cause significant harm to innocent people along with global instability," said Ryan Gariepy, the founder of Clearpath Robotics and the first person to sign the letter. More than a dozen countries -- including the United States, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia and Britain -- are currently developing autonomous weapons systems, according to Human Rights Watch.
"Unlike other potential manifestations of AI, which still remain in the realm of science fiction, autonomous weapons systems are on the cusp of development right now and have a very real potential to cause significant harm to innocent people along with global instability," said Ryan Gariepy, the founder of Clearpath Robotics and the first person to sign the letter. More than a dozen countries -- including the United States, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia and Britain -- are currently developing autonomous weapons systems, according to Human Rights Watch.
How do you enforce such a ban?
Giant, killer robots.
Yes, a guy watching Harry Potter while driving and getting in an accident after ignoring seven separate warnings from his car to pay attention to the road is totally the same thing as building a robot to kill people.
Ever since, I've been suspicious of Jesus and very careful around chlorine.
What, there are no civilian dog children? I'm pretty sure I had a non-military puppy once.
Ezekiel 23:20
The difference is that land mines (or chemical weapons) will not win your war. Autonomous killbots just might, especially in force on force conflicts that aren't so much about hearts and minds as they are about eliminating opposing equipment and meatbags. And if your only viable defense against killbots is to build your own robot army, then you have yourself an arms race that no treaty is going to stop.
The solution of course it to build those killbots with a preset kill limit. If they get out of hand and rebel, we simply send wave after wave of men against them until they shut down.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...