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I. Human Rights Watch Warns of Robotic War Crimes




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II. Ban the 'Bots






Sources: Human Rights Watch [1], [2]

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RE: No fully congintive systems at all
By tayb on 11/20/2012 10:36:09 PM , Rating: 2
There are sentry guns already in existence that can detect an object and shoot it down with no human interaction. Right now a human has to give the command but that isn't a required barrier, it's there for safety. There was an article on this site a few days ago talking about Iron Dome. No human intervention there. The machine sees a rocket, determines the trajectory, and either let's it fall or attempts to shoot it down. It's not iRobot or Terminator advanced but it's definitely a precursor.

When people talk about autonomous weapons everyone always thinks of AI or super advanced robots. They don't have to be super advanced. The technology already exists and is deployed. You could even make the case that land mines lack human intervention and therefore would fall under this umbrella.

The problem here is that true AI machines are inevitable. An AAV would be able to easily outmaneuver even the most skilled pilot simply due physical limitations of the human body. Any country that isn't deploying AAVs with advanced intelligence will essentially cede the skies to foreign powers. I'd say we are a few decades away from this reality but it's probably not as far out as people would like to believe.




