Danger from within
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The Drone War
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· Score: 2, Insightful
When you think about things, there's a slight risk involved here. More and more these days, machines are running war for us. Some of the greatest AI experts of the age are confidently predicting that these battle-ready robots may, for one reason or another, turn on humanity in a real-life 'terminator' scenario. Kevin Warwick, head of Cybernetics at Reading University, England is one example. He is working, among other things, on ways for machines to 'evolve' their own intelligence. It might not take as much time as we think for machines to take over the show entirely, planning battles and maybe, eventually, starting wars where their country's interests are sufficiently compromised.
Once a system like this is in place, it would only take a small amount of file corruption in the wrong place (especially using 'evolved' software, which is likely to be more fragile) for the war machines to go epileptic and/or decide they weren't happy with second place.
What will happen in the future is anyone's guess, but I'm thinking that maybe the makers of 'Star Wars' were being overly optimistic when they inserted large droid armies under external control.
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When you think about things, there's a slight risk involved here. More and more these days, machines are running war for us. Some of the greatest AI experts of the age are confidently predicting that these battle-ready robots may, for one reason or another, turn on humanity in a real-life 'terminator' scenario. Kevin Warwick, head of Cybernetics at Reading University, England is one example. He is working, among other things, on ways for machines to 'evolve' their own intelligence. It might not take as much time as we think for machines to take over the show entirely, planning battles and maybe, eventually, starting wars where their country's interests are sufficiently compromised. Once a system like this is in place, it would only take a small amount of file corruption in the wrong place (especially using 'evolved' software, which is likely to be more fragile) for the war machines to go epileptic and/or decide they weren't happy with second place. What will happen in the future is anyone's guess, but I'm thinking that maybe the makers of 'Star Wars' were being overly optimistic when they inserted large droid armies under external control.