Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion

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Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.

The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.

The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.

Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.

"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."

The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.

Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.
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That's right everyone. Be afraid...for the robot revolution is just around the corner.
 
Maybe not EMP protected, but it looks like soon they'll USE EMPs to dodge bullets. It's good for us, but better for them :(

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So, they'll just Matrix their way out of bullets?
 
We're all DOOMED.
Actually,no,we're so beyond doom,that doom is jsut a happy memory.
 
GrnMarvl13 said:
That's right everyone. Be afraid...for the robot revolution is just around the corner.
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As long as they don't kill their human sympathizers, I'm good. ;-)

In all seriousness though, I do fear that humanity will create something like this, treat it like utter crap and then act surprised when it lashes out. If we can't treat members of our species with dignity, I shudder to think what we would do to a robot.
 
Silverwynde said:
In all seriousness though, I do fear that humanity will create something like this, treat it like utter crap and then act surprised when it lashes out. If we can't treat members of our species with dignity, I shudder to think what we would do to a robot.
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That's how the Matrix came about. We took them for granted so they used us for fuel. We just need to build them with really big shut-off buttons.
 
Why not use the three laws of robotics. They say nothing about hurting other robots. Just humans.
 
That's how the Matrix came about. We took them for granted so they used us for fuel. We just need to build them with really big shut-off buttons.
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No, program like the AI in the Culture or Assimov - above all they have to absolutely unconditionally LOOOOOVEEEE humans.
 
domesticshorthair said:
Why not use the three laws of robotics. They say nothing about hurting other robots. Just humans.
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Asimov's novels are FULL of robots defying the laws of robotics in some manner. Makes for good reading, but not a guaranteed way to reduce a robot revolution. Would be a nice place to start, though.
 
Yup, it does.:DThere are loopholes in the laws. Especially after what happened on Solaria. And Gladia...well, her and Jander was just...odd. Daneel and Giskard, though, awesome. Just what IS humanity, exactly.

I've always thought that in the unwritten sequel, as Daneel will merge with Fallom, Galaxia would become a galaxy of worlds like Solaria. More robots. The enemy is already here, especially after how Trivize treated her. I mean it. It would have made for such a great story.:(
 
Well, it's kind of a lie to say that a robot can go outside of programming only the more advanced the programming the less control the developer has over it (because it increases the amount of outcomes).

I don't think we should be demonizing ROV and Robot technology to be used practically in war situations. That sounds like funded science talk (or what ever the word you call it for when people hire a scientist to give them results that they desire for a topic no mater what the actual truth may be. Like the scientist against global warming, evolution, and cigarettes)
 
Wait, are we paying these guys tax dollars for them to write science fiction? It sounds like they're talking about bugs in the programming. Bugs can certainly cause unknown behavior, and that unknown behavior could possibly be "disobey human masters and conquer the world", but the chances of that happening are so astronomical it's ridiculous.
 
IMO, people just aren't ready for robots yet. I mean, they're already worrying about the robots rebelling, when they haven't even been build yet. But I mean, isn't a computer and such a robot in a way?
 
domesticshorthair said:
IMO, people just aren't ready for robots yet. I mean, they're already worrying about the robots rebelling, when they haven't even been build yet. But I mean, isn't a computer and such a robot in a way?
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And look at how computers can be taken over. Imagine one with a gun.
 
Robots cannot rebel!
if they are not programmed to do so they can do no harm,
no if a hacker got into one we'd be screwed XD
 
Well the japanese are starting to build robots to model off new clothes so i say sooner or later war machines will start to pop up. And I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
 
If there was ever something like this it would be cool, could bring world peace between humans since they would have to work together or just die.
 
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