Monday, April 18, 2011

The Terminators: drone strikes prompt MoD to ponder ethics of killer robots

Analysis of unmanned aircraft in combat urges Britain to establish policy on ‘acceptable machine behaviour’

The growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues, and threatens to make war more likely as armed robots take over from  human beings, according to an internal study by the Ministry of Defence.
The report warns of the dangers of an “incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality”, referring to James Cameron‘s 1984 movie, in which humans are hunted by robotic killing machines. It says the pace of technological development is accelerating at such a rate that Britain must quickly establish a policy on what will constitute “acceptable machine behaviour”.
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