Mk15 Phalanx system (Photo from Chem11)From McClatchy:
WASHINGTON — The unmanned bombers that frequently cause unintended civilian casualties in Pakistan are a step toward an even more lethal generation of robotic hunters-killers that operate with limited, if any, human control.
The Defense Department is financing studies of autonomous, or self-governing, armed robots that could find and destroy targets on their own. On-board computer programs, not flesh-and-blood people, would decide whether to fire their weapons.
"The trend is clear: Warfare will continue and autonomous robots will ultimately be deployed in its conduct," Ronald Arkin, a robotics expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, wrote in a study commissioned by the Army.
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My Comment: We are clearly sleepwalking into a brave new world where robots decide who, where and when to kill. The reason why they are being given this responsibility is obvious .... they are extremely lethal and very effective. They also will give "a way out" and/or no responsibility to their human masters when things go wrong .... which they always do.
But things can sometimes go wrong.
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