{"id":6088,"date":"2008-12-01T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/pentagon-hires-british-scienti.html"},"modified":"2008-12-01T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:25:23","slug":"pentagon-hires-british-scienti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/pentagon-hires-british-scienti.html","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon hires British scientist to help build “ethical” robot soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh.My.Heck<\/a>! Do they not realize that it’s robots’ “ethics” that lead to them trying to eliminate the source of the world’s problems: man. In all of the robot-takes-over-world type movies that is the issue, I, Robot<\/em>, Eagle Eye<\/em>, and The Terminator<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.
\nBy 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into “autonomous systems”, the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not succumb to fear or the desire for vengeance that afflicts frontline soldiers.
\nA British robotics expert has been recruited by the US Navy to advise them on building robots that do not violate the Geneva Conventions.
\nColin Allen, a scientific philosopher at Indiana University’s has just published a book summarising his views entitled Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.
\nHe told The Daily Telegraph: “The question they want answered is whether we can build automated weapons that would conform to the laws of war. Can we use ethical theory to help design these machines?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are doomed to make the creators of these books and movies prophets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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