Thursday, October 23, 2014

Rise of the Machines

The partially autonomously controlled missiles, or so-called "killer robots", will be used for airborne strikes for its new fighter jets and have the ability to identify targets and make decisions to kill without human interference. [More]
"Without human interference"...?

What a nice way of saying they're creating a cybersociopath, the stuff of techno-nightmares, in good old-fashioned lingo, a monster...

Which makes it fair to wonder about the wholesome goodness of its creators, who need be held personally liable for the decisions of their abomination.

Terminally liable for terminal decisions...

See? We don't need bans. We just need to make people accountable for what they do, and for what they set loose.

[Via Florida Guy]   

6 comments:

Crotalus said...

Skynet and the Terminators are much closer than we think.

Toastrider said...

And I just watched the Avengers 2 trailer. Oh boy.

"There are no strings on me."

David Codrea said...

Me too, TR, but it lost some of its ominous edge, because the song is from Disney's "Pinocchio," and we used to have it on their "Singalong"videos for the kids.

Toastrider said...

Yeah, but it's one thing to have it sung by kids, another to have it quoted ironically by the evil killer robot.

David Codrea said...

Typically, it was sung to them by their evil killer dad. God help me, I can also do "Bear Necessities" and "Under the Sea."

Mack said...

Have you been watching "Person of Interest" this season? It's been incredibly scary.

The Big Bad is Samaritan.