Posted on 08/21/2021 5:23:20 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
AS a soldier runs from the battlefield, he's spotted by a suicide drone loitering in the sky overhead.
The killing machine dives down on its target and explodes in a kamikaze attack – without anyone telling it to.
t might sound like the stuff of science fiction but killer robots, sometimes called "slaughterbots", are already a reality.
Last year, STM Kargu-2 drones hunted down targets in what might be the first instance of artificial intelligence killing on its own initiative.
The revelation came after years of experts warning about the dangers of letting machines decide who lives and dies in combat.
Now a UN conference on so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva to create new international regulations to stop killer robots being allowed to make their own decisions.
The Russian delegate argued no new rules are needed, but others disagree, saying machines shouldn't be given the power to choose targets themselves.
“Humans must apply the rules of international humanitarian law in carrying out attacks so weapons that function in this way complicate that,” Dr Neil Davison of the International Committee of the Red Cross told BBC Radio's Today programme.
“Our view is that an algorithm shouldn't decide who lives or dies.”
(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...
As long as this Terminator isn’t saying “Screw your freedoms,” I’ll live with it.
The Taliban is not going to be pleased when they find out the Cadaver in Cheif didn’t leave at least a few of these behind.
k, I’m going into bullet proof umbrellas
I’m sure all that stuff is awesome against tax-paying, law-abiding sheeple but what about drug cartels and the Taliban?
Coming to an unvaccinated person near you.
Hilarious! What is that from?
Well, the drones forming the Olympic rings and the globe over the stadium were impressive. Why don’t we arm them and add cameras and send 10,000 of them around Kabul to shoot terrorists?
It is all fun and games till they are hacked and start killing the ‘wrong’ people
AI is programmed by dumb people.
>>Our view is that an algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies.”
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Tomorrow’s battlefield will be thoe victors who ignored this and the dead who heeded it.
Who is she?
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