Is Sky-Net in our future?

[Arbo]

http://www.defenseone.com/technology...-drones/71492/

Scientists, engineers and policymakers are all figuring out ways drones can be used better and more smartly, more precise and less damaging to civilians, with longer range and better staying power. One method under development is by increasing autonomy on the drone itself.

Eventually, drones may have the technical ability to make even lethal decisions autonomously: to respond to a programmed set of inputs, select a target and fire their weapons without a human reviewing or checking the result. Yet the idea of the U.S. military deploying a lethal autonomous robot, or LAR, is sparking controversy. Though autonomy might address some of the current downsides of how drones are used, they introduce new downsides policymakers are only just learning to grapple with.

Terminator from the skies...

[revelarts]

major sci fi theme...

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"somehow i told ya so just doesn't quite say it."

i heard one robot engineer say his biggest fear wasn't an intelligent self aware machine. His biggest fear was was a bunch robots more like a washing machines with guns and other weapons, stuck on kill.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

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"somehow i told ya so just doesn't quite say it."

i heard one robot engineer say his biggest fear wasn't an intelligent self aware machine. His biggest fear was was a bunch robots more like a washing machines with guns and other weapons, stuck on kill.

We have far worse than Sky-Net we have Obama-net and are snared in it way too deep now!!!! --Tyr