Sunday, April 15, 2007

New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots





Canning proposes that robot warriors should be allowed to mix it up among themselves freely, autonomously deciding to blast enemy weapon systems. Many enemy "systems" would, of course, be themselves robots, so it's clear that machine-on-machine violence isn't a problem. The difficulty comes when the automatic battlers need to target humans. In such cases Mr Canning says that permission from a human operator should be sought.

"Let machines target other machines," he writes, "and let men target men."


It almost sounds biblical, doesn't it?

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