Posted on 05/05/2013 6:25:53 PM PDT by Altariel
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input “should not have the power of life and death over human beings,” a new draft U.N. report says.
The report for the U.N. Human Rights Commission posted online this week deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans, echoing countless science-fiction novels and films. The debate dates to author Isaac Asimov’s first rule for robots in the 1942 story “Runaround:” ”A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
Report author Christof Heyns, a South African professor of human rights law, calls for a worldwide moratorium on the “testing, production, assembly, transfer, acquisition, deployment and use” of killer robots until an international conference can develop rules for their use.
His findings are due to be debated at the Human Rights Council in Geneva on May 29.
According to the report, the United States, Britain, Israel, South Korea and Japan have developed various types of fully or semi-autonomous weapons.
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A Tomahawk missle would be illegal, and so would an anti-aircraft missle if it was set to automatically fire. This would give an agressor an advantage with weaponry too fast to respond to by humans.
NO TO SKYNET!
Paging John and Sarah Connor....
obama....
The UN reserves the Executioner’s place, of course.
When do we get our phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range?
There goes my Cyberdyne stock.
Don’t worry...soon Google will become self aware.
Might want to keep an eye on it. :)
Will this interfere with my plans to create an Army of flying monkey cyborgs? They look really cute when they fire air to air missiles while throwing poop.
I’d like to be first to say,
“Hail, Robot Overlords!”
Paging John and Sarah Connor....
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