Thursday 21 May 2009

Keep It Simple

I see they're trying to write up a code of ethics for robot warriors. That's all very laudable, I'm sure, but I always thought that this summed the solution up quite nicely:

3 comments:

jayessell said...

In one of the pdfs, there was a concern that the human soldiers might not like having a robot in their squad videorecording THEIR infractions of the Laws of War.

Wunderbear said...

Yeah, I could guess what that sound clip was going to be.

Still. Despite what countless viewings of the Terminator films has taught me, I still like the idea of combat robots. (Or rather, UCVs.)

jayessell said...

P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War was on the Craig Ferguson show recently hawking his book.

Go to YouTube and search, you'll find numerous interviews.

(He says pretty much the same thing each time, but it can't be helped.)