"Too late meat sacks! We're here and have your beer!"
Hey bender, the Vatican is gunning for ya!!
Posted on 11/28/2018 5:42:46 AM PST by jerod
ROME - Fully automated and autonomous lethal weapons systems must be banned now before they become a reality in tomorrow’s wars, a Vatican representative said.
The development of robotic weapons or “killer robots” will provide “the capacity of altering irreversibly the nature of warfare, becoming more detached from human agency, putting in question the humanity of our societies,” Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic told a group of experts at the United Nations in Geneva.
The archbishop, who is the Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva, spoke Nov. 22 at a meeting of the high contracting parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, held in Geneva Nov. 21-23. The Vatican mission in Geneva released the archbishop’s remarks Nov. 27.
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There was a time when the Holy See concentrated on reality, sadly that time appears to have passed.
They should work on preventing Marxist Popes.
I love the idea of saving American lives. But I do worry that these robots will turn on Humanity at some point in the future.
The pope and others in the Catholic Church should concern themselves with spiritual matters not with geopolitical things.
1.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
and also —
0. A robot may not injure humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Like Mohammadans ?
I’d want to see the looks on the illegal aliens’ faces when they come at the border and see an army of robotic, acid blooded, head-biting Xenomorphs waiting for them.
“Yeah SURE! With those THINGS runnin’ around out there? You can count me out!”
I agree somewhat.
No autonomous combat vehicles.
There needs to be a man in the loop, if just to be able to say “Stop!”
Oh, and a foolproof “off” switch.
Remember the Star Trek episode where a war was fought on cumputer simulators and people who were targeted for death just walked into an extermination machine???
When I first saw video of that robot that could run, I found it disturbing and didn’t really understand why at the time, but I now realize that the only reason anyone would want a bipedal robot that could run would be pursuit. Pursuit of what, or whom? We know what the answer will ultimately be. I dislike being in agreement with this man, he is a charlatan and an impostor, he has no business anywhere near Christianity or any religion whatsoever. He’s a Marxist first and foremost. That does not mean that he’s always and forevermore wrong about every single thing, though. He’s not wrong about this.
"Too late meat sacks! We're here and have your beer!"
Hey bender, the Vatican is gunning for ya!!
I saw a show where a man told a robot about the main rule. The robot replied “there’s an app for that” and killed him.
This really should not be on the list of the Vatican’s top 3,487 concerns right now.
Time to get Old Glory
Great idea until the decision algorithms decide that they know best what is right for humanity to keep us from our self-destructive ways. Or at least what it has evaluated as sub-optimal and potentially self-destructive. Then we get VIKI from "I Robot" or we get Skynet from "Terminator" that is afraid we'll take it down with us...or in the precursor form, we get leftist liberals who are sure they know best for us "bitter clingers" and want to rule every aspect of our lives.
Adding that "law" would negate the other three. "Overpopulation harms humanity (cf. Georgia Guidestones), ergo let's exterminate 90% of humans."
This is a blind squirrel getting a nut sort of thing.
Killer robots have already left the realm of science fiction.
Maybe the Vatican should consider banning priests having sex with minors (or each other) before it worries about the behavior of robots. Oh, that’s right. Francis has banned all discussion of that problem because he has a but meeting in February. And now he’s started making moves to cancel that meeting so really, just can’t talk about it anymore. Sorry, victims! We’ve moved on to robots.
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