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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.
Your unhinged hyperbole is certainly "irrelevant pap"...
People seem to misunderstand what these bans are far. Nukes are banned, but North Korea made them anyway, so might as well not ban them? Is the ban really totally ineffective, or has it allowed us to prevent many more countries from getting nukes and put immense pressure on NK (including sanctions) to stop its own programme?
Banning killer robots will make it harder to build them, and create negative consequences for having them. Every country will have to decide if it is worth the sanctions and economic fall-out just to have that weapon. Every business will have to decide if it is worth suffering the consequences of being involved in development and manufacture.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
A robot that can shoot lasers and punch through walls should probably require human oversight, especially in an unpredictable and volatile emergency situation. If such a robot were used in war under close human direction, it would be like any guided missile or drone.
What Musk is talking about is robots with enough AI to go into an area, decide on targets for itself and decide if it is going to kill them or not. There isn't really any reasonable civilian use for such a robot. A robot that is designed to look for disaster survivors and then definitely avoid killing them at all costs would need a lot of modification to be more than a improvised booby-trap type device, which again is little different to existing improvised weapons.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
You haven't seen his opponent, have you?
Just a recent case, the "terrorist" in Charlottesville. While it hurts me to defend a neo-Confederate, I don't see even any malice there. The guy was an idiot, but what would you do when an angry hostile mob that beats people around you surrounds your car, doesn't let you go and tries to pry the doors open to beat (or worse) you? The guy panicked and drove free over the mob.
The police during that rally was so extremely biased that I don't believe a word of what they say. There's been enough of the same going on in Poland, Turkey -- not to mention countries like Russia that don't even bother with color of law anymore.
In Poland, bastards from our far-right government keep reassigning, firing, and even jailing cops and judges who try to be fair. For example, there's been a series of cases where govt members illegally declared their cars to be "emergency vehicles", used light signals but not sound, travelled at a reckless speed then when inevitable accidents occurred, had the police declare people they slammed into to be guilty. Who cares about witnesses and physical evidence? They can force the cops and judges to do their bidding.
Alt-right is no worse and no better than Antifa -- both are hate groups. It just depends on which side happens to be liked by people in charge.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Your damn right I can. Antifa use the same tactics as the brown shirts.
I think that has more to do with gas attacks proving to be not all that effective in conflicts between regular army. They work on unprepared civilians but not against trained and equipped troops, and not against small groups of widely dispersed fighters.
Basically they are only really useful for thugs that need to terrorize their own populations. If they were more effective on the battlefield you'd see more countries refusing to give them up, as you see with mines