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Last spring, Stuart Russell is an employee of California University – wrote a rather unusual letter in which appealed to the public, officials and the military. Software Engineer says Humanity Must Ban production and use of autonomous lethal weapons.
For those of us who are not particularly interested in the latest world military industry, such a call may seem divorced from reality and sucked out of the finger, like a ban requirement Star Wars death star or Superman kryptonite, however, in reality, everything is not so simple. Killer robots already are on the battlefields, killing lives.
It’s no secret that the military has always sought automate the battle. For example, modern anti-tank and anti-personnel mines can already be called peculiar robots, albeit very simple. Air-to-air missiles with thermal hover is even smarter, albeit not by much. Nowadays you can already meet and fully standalone devices designed to incapacitation of living opponents. Car “Super aEgis II”, created by South Koreans, able to recognize people and maximize precisely aim at them from long distances. Before as shoot the enemy out of a 12.7 mm cannon, a robot asks permission from a live operator. True, it’s rather not technical requirement, and the rule of military etiquette.
And do not forget military drones – many of them remotely managed by people, but there are already those who can act independently.
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Killer robots – internationally banned
According to Stuart Russell, autonomous robots can become “Kalashnikov of the future” – as affordable, cheap in production and uptime in battle. And that will change the rules forever waging war. The powerful of this world will be able at the least cost. control the military power of the planet. And if you kill innocent people some soldiers always refuse, then cars that do not know sympathy and pity will not stop at nothing.
The petition of an American has already been signed by over twenty thousand scientists from many countries, however, there were those scientists who spoke in defense of smart weapons. So, the British robot engineer Victor Calvert I am convinced that the use of robots will significantly reduce human casualties in the war.
Russell’s appeal will soon be considered at the World United Nations Economic Forum and Meeting Nations.
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