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August 07, 2009
The Attack of the killer robots
Anders Sandberg writes in Pratical Ethics about professor Noel Sharkey's warning that we are well on our way to get military killer robots that have great autonomy in applying deadly force.
In Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force! Sandberg writes about the serious problems posed by weapons systems where human and machine autonomy mix, the institutional pressures that may force soldiers to take formal responsibility when they are not truly in control, the risk of overestimating the reliability of decisionmaking as well as the profound worry many feel over the increasing automatization of warfare.
Read more in the report Autonomy, Loyalty and Trust in the World of Machines.
Posted by Waldemar at August 7, 2009 09:20 AM