Robot Warriors

I dunno, this kind of development is basically inevitable given the money available to the military-industrial complex; but that doesn’t mean that we should feel comfortable with it. I mean, especially when there are plenty of instances of automated systems going “crazy” and uncontrollably firing.

 

Of course, none of this is helped by the Terminator movies, the horrible Will-Smith version of “I, Robot”, or whatever robot-killing-spree movie is next on the docket. And it’s not like humans don’t have enough murderous urges to eclipse these robots’ minor damages. But the reality is that humans (for better or worse) are not going to be curbing these killing urges any time soon, and the robot weapons are a more emotionally removed method of killing by proxy, thereby further reducing the emotional impact of murder. As usual, there’s no real good answer for a way forward; the best we can hope for is that we as individuals put our shoulders behind the legislative force of self-improvement and do a little nation-building here in North America before we involve ourselves in every other country’s business…