stop the war bots before they decide to kill us all

[bcbm]

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/10/06/1225934/866395-terminator.jpg


AN Australian lecturer has warned of dangers to humanity if we continue further developing military robots.

Dr Robert Sparrow, senior lecturer for the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, says that unmanned weapons systems encourage war and can give the "illusion of a god-like power".

Dr Sparrow is part of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a group dedicated to halting the development of robot weapons.

Their online mission statement states: "Machines should not be allowed to make the decision to kill people."


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http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-bioethicist-warns-of-robopocalypse/story-e6frfro0-1225934861279

[Kuppo Shakur]

Take that, technocrats.

[Q]

Take that, technocrats.

I have not seen any technocrats arguing for the development of terminators...

[bcbm]

I have not seen any technocrats arguing for the development of terminators...

shhh

[Kuppo Shakur]

I have not seen any technocrats arguing for the development of terminators...
Well, obviously they wouldn't say it out loud.

[AK]

I have not seen any technocrats arguing for the development of terminators...
My cover nearly got blown. We will raise an army of robotic proletarians.

[EvilRedGuy]

Take that, technocrats.

You will be the first to die in the robot wars, our Technocratic army of Techno music will conquer the world. :mad:

[Sasha]

and moved to chitchat me think

[Ravachol]

Despite people not taking this thread all that serious, there are some sidenotes to be made. Sure, the development of robot war machines might be a 'threat against humanity', but it's not so much the robots that threaten humanity but the social structures that give rise to these machines, ie. Capitalism.

People grinding their gears over terminator robots who threaten humanity all too often forget that it's the social structures that give rise to these machines that are the 'threat to humanity'. It's like those agitating against war and war alone as some kind of 'state of exception', implicitly defending the violence of Capitalist normalcy.

[Ovi]

Yes, robots made to kill humans can be put to good use in socialism.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

inform the governator, only he can save us now

[Quail]

Yes, robots made to kill humans can be put to good use in socialism.

I don't know... I can imagine certain posters would find them quite useful to purge dissenters.

I'm pretty sure someone posted that it would be good to have a panel of people deciding who gets purged a while back, so their death panel might find killer robots pretty useful.

[bcbm]

why was this moved to chit chat? the off topic/trollbait shit should have been trashed but the article is serious.

[Q]

why was this moved to chit chat? the off topic/trollbait shit should have been trashed but the article is serious.

The fact that no serious discussion came out of it should tell enough.

[bcbm]

there's plenty of threads that are more full of troll shit than this and about way less important issues

[Os Cangaceiros]

gasp...Hollywood was right all along!


Yes, robots made to kill humans can be put to good use in socialism.

Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? Remember that giant robotic dog that they'd send out to kill people the government didn't like? That's what this reminds me of.

[Ravachol]

Yes, robots made to kill humans can be put to good use in socialism.

Who said anything about that? I know I most certainly didn't....
What I said was that the robots themselves aren't the root of the problem, they're a product of the problem, which is the social structure.