Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk warn of 'third revolution in warfare' with autonomous weapons:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-28/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-warn-of-ai-weapon-arms-race/6652466
I don't have any answers but as a tech guy myself this is coming whether we like it or not. The ability to attach a camera, night vision, and a small firearm and other assorted weapons to either a fixed mounted point or drone is already here. We can already network these systems together and use software to track targets across multiple cameras. We can already manufacture not hundreds of these but millions if we needed to at low cost, all networked together and driven by smart systems.
I can certainly see how the military would love to use these. Imagine how much easier controlling Iraq would have been if the cities were covered in networked connected cameras and many of those cameras were also armed and mobile. Anybody who moves in the city to deploy and IED could be tracked across multiple cameras using software. Anybody who didn't comply with demands and needed to be eliminated could be targeted anywhere in the city at any time from a hundred different viewpoints.
I was just thinking about how much my second amendment rights will protect me against a government that is able to deploy thousands of armed robots that are controlled by smart systems. I don't think individual citizens can protect themselves from such an onslaught with standard firearms alone.
Should we declare armed autonomous weapons as protected by the second amendment so that citizens can have them as well? Should we ban them like is proposed in the article? Would such a ban actually work?
Scary...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-28/stephen-hawking-elon-musk-warn-of-ai-weapon-arms-race/6652466
I don't have any answers but as a tech guy myself this is coming whether we like it or not. The ability to attach a camera, night vision, and a small firearm and other assorted weapons to either a fixed mounted point or drone is already here. We can already network these systems together and use software to track targets across multiple cameras. We can already manufacture not hundreds of these but millions if we needed to at low cost, all networked together and driven by smart systems.
I can certainly see how the military would love to use these. Imagine how much easier controlling Iraq would have been if the cities were covered in networked connected cameras and many of those cameras were also armed and mobile. Anybody who moves in the city to deploy and IED could be tracked across multiple cameras using software. Anybody who didn't comply with demands and needed to be eliminated could be targeted anywhere in the city at any time from a hundred different viewpoints.
I was just thinking about how much my second amendment rights will protect me against a government that is able to deploy thousands of armed robots that are controlled by smart systems. I don't think individual citizens can protect themselves from such an onslaught with standard firearms alone.
Should we declare armed autonomous weapons as protected by the second amendment so that citizens can have them as well? Should we ban them like is proposed in the article? Would such a ban actually work?
Scary...