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The Compass/Real Clear World: Russia Tries to Build a Terminator
Military robotics and unmanned systems are gaining popularity across the globe. The United States is the leading developer and user of various unmanned air, land, and sea systems, but other nations are not far behind in their desire to field these platforms.
Over the past few years, Russia has made significant technological breakthroughs in the development and exploitation of unmanned systems, although their quality is the subject of domestic and international scrutiny. Most notably, Russia supplied reconnaissance drones to rebels in Eastern Ukraine. These have bolstered rebels' accuracy in targeting Ukrainian government forces. Despite the Russian domestic industry's inability to meet its nation's full demand for such systems - a shortcoming that prompts foreign technology purchases - the Russian Ministry of Defense has big plans for unmanned and robotics platforms and has been working on several concepts.
WNU Editor: We are still a long way from having these systems being used on battlefields and war zones .... but it does give us a heads up on where we are heading. If you can read Russian there is more to this story here.
3 comments:
Robots vs robots would be a first in warfare and a bit of a grey line. Can the terminator be charged with war crime?
Short answer no
Phill,
With lawfare being so popular these days we'll probably see attempts to establish chains of culpability with the starting points being the robots and reaching back through the operators to whoever and wherever the accusers want or need to go. When and if they cut the cords with AI it will be something similar to the anti- tobacco legal campaigns, going after the manufacturers, distributors, etc. claiming the production of a dangerous product harmed users so on and so on.
Naw I have yet to see a predator drone in court. But if he shot a black man in self defense...heads will roll!
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