Getting That Pesky Human Conscience Out Of The Way!

Killer Robots are going to be debated during an informal meeting of killing experts at the United Nations in Geneva.

You learn something new every day. I always thought Geneva was where we went to talk about not killing people.

This will be the first time that the issue of Killer Robots, or Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, will be addressed during the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Professor Arkin from the Georgia Institute of Technology told the BBC he hoped Killer Robots would be able to significantly reduce non-combatant casualties but feared they would be rushed into battle before this was accomplished.

He went on to state that Killer Robots may be better able to determine when not to engage a target than humans can determine, "and could potentially exercise greater care in so doing".

(Don’t you just love it when terms like, “exercise greater care” are used in discussions about killing people.)

The discussion of drones, however, is not on the agenda as they are yet able to operate completely autonomously. There are signs this may change in the near future. (Yes, the underlined part is a link. Click on it if you want to read some really futuristic stuff that Fella is not getting into in this blog posting.)

What will they think of next? Such a tidy idea... Robots with no blood, sweat or tears on our side and piles of dead on the other side of the battlefield.

Or is their side going to be our side?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe:

In the Past... Peter Sellers said, “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War the Room!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM

In the Future... We might be saying, “You can’t kill us in here. We are being busy killed by that thing up there and it does not seem to acknowledge the White Flag we are waving at it. We are up to our third Flag Holder.”

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