Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.

The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.

Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over ** sapiens soldiers.

"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."

The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.

Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

seems like a good time to watch that terminator series again, and take notes.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

seems like a good time to watch that terminator series again, and take notes.

Ya think! Or what was that one, with the GI Joes and Barbie Dolls versus the Zarcon Warriors?

Doesn't the Highway Patrol have something that gives out an E.M.P. and shut down the computer in a vehicle?

Edited February 21, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

seems like a good time to watch that terminator series again, and take notes.

Ya think! Or what was that one, with the GI Joes and Barbie Dolls versus the Zarcon Warriors?

Doesn't the Highway Patrol have something that gives out an E.M.P. and shut down the computer in a vehicle?

i've heard of a herf gun before, maybe time to start looking at them plans again

http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/10/0826258.shtml

[Jasman0717 9]

seems like a good time to watch that terminator series again, and take notes.

Ever see the Forbin Project?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Where is Consolemaster when we need him?

[alienlovechild 75]

Ever see the Forbin Project?

The idea of an evil computer running the world lost its punch on a generation weened on computers. They never saw computers as malevolent or mysterious.

[Yoink 7]

EMP like in the Matriz series...

I'll have standard guns for humans, lasers for the aliens, EMPs for the robots, and valium, xanacs, and vicodin for myself

[Ban Hammer 13,332]

Where is Consolemaster when we need him?

he's busy reprogramming his wii.

[HAL 9000 96]

Where is Consolemaster when we need him?

is HAL 9000 not enough?

For the Record, I do not have anything to do with Cyberdyne or Skynet.

[Jasman0717 9]

EMP like in the Matriz series...

valium, xanacs, and vicodin for myself