Lucy Mangan, The Guardian; Unknown: Killer Robots review – the future of AI will fill you with unholy terror
"The dilemma surrounding almost all military inventions – perhaps almost all inventions full stop – is what is slightly grandly called “the dual use problem”. On the one hand, you’ve got drones and robots who can clear buildings without risking soldiers’ lives. On the other, you can weaponise them, autonomise them and use them to take out entire villages without anyone getting their hands dirty. What is that sense of detachment likely to do to the level of carnage in a war overall? Former US defense secretary Bob Work doesn’t think “human intervention in kill decisions” will ever change. I cannot help but pause for a moment to suggest, respectfully, that either the good colonel has never met humanity or that he is the programme’s equivalent of the flight attendant urging people to keep calm as the passenger jet plummets to its fiery doom."
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