Asaro: “It’s OK for a plane to fly itself. It’s not OK for a plane to decide who to shoot at.”
In the above video, co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control Peter Asaro talks to RT yesterday about the developing dangers of autonomous armed robots — “systems that control themselves without human control.”
“There’s no specific laws against them,” says Asaro, a philosopher of science, technology and media at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City. “What we really need is an international treaty that codifies that we don’t want autonomous systems deciding who lives and dies. It’s OK for a plane to fly itself. It’s not OK for a plane to decide who to shoot at.”
[...] Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) has a new swanky website. I joined ICRAC in May as an expression of my concern with the growing possibilities of autonomous armed robots, which I believe are no less morally problematic than the landmines I found so disturbing that I [...]
ICRAC Has a New Website « Political Minefields said this on 7 June 2012 at 8:44 pm |