The supercomputer Hal in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey embodies our worst fears about autonomous machines. Photograph: RGAFrom The Guardian:
The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report exploring the social, legal and ethical implications of ceding control to autonomous systems.
Within a decade, we could be routinely interacting with machines that are truly autonomous – systems that can adapt, learn from their experience and make decisions for themselves. Free from fatigue and emotion, they would perform better than humans in tasks that are dull, dangerous or stressful.
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My Comment: As UAV and robot technology rapidly develops, situations will arise in which these tools will end up killing innocent civilians.
Who will be responsible for this eventuality? The manufacturer? The operator in some bunker in the middle of a desert in Nevada? The commander who ordered this "warbot" into a war zone?
These questions will become more prevalent as these technologies become the standard .... not the rule .... when applied against the enemy.
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