Physicist Stephen Hawking and inventor Elon Musk have
called for a ban on autonomous weapons, signing a letter with over
1,000 experts saying the technology could drive a "third revolution in
warfare".
The letter was released as the world's top experts in
artificial intelligence congregated for the 2015 International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires, and was also
signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and linguist and activist Noam
Chomsky.It warned the deployment of such autonomous weapons was feasible within years.
"Autonomous weapons select and engage targets without human intervention," the letter said.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades, and the stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.
"Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilising nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.
end partial quote from:third revolution in warfare
I agree. The problem is not so much responsible governments from Democracies. The problem is when it gets into the hands of Terrorists and Gun and weapons runners worldwide and every day criminals worldwide. At that point governments will tend to break down and go away along with all normal civilization.
This isn't some very complex thing like trying to build an atom or hydrogen bomb. Once you have the right chips and a way to get or make them almost anyone can build these things. And once they are programmed they will always (as long as there isn't a software or hardware malfunction) keep killing until they are destroyed or out of electricity from their batteries or gas engines generating electricity to run them. So, the amount of people one robot with AI could kill is only limited to it's power sources theoretically. It would be like living "The Terminator" in real life here today.
And this is only One phase of the Technological Singularity we are presently in and going through. There are many many more we would have to survive as human beings, theoretically speaking. But now, it is no longer theoretical we are living it beginning with Predator drones with Hellfire Missiles, hummingbird camera drones and beetle sized camera drones.
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