Gene Roddenberry’s production, Star Trek, demonstrated that there is a fine line between science fiction and science fact.
Who could forget the omnipresent tricorder, designed to ascertain, among other things, one’s health status? Today, we have portable and wireless medical imaging devices
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Do you remember the Star Trek’s communication device? Compare this to a modern day cell phone.
Moving along in science fiction movie history, take a look at the killer robot which appeared in the movie, Terminator.
Compare science fiction with DARPA’s science fact as killer robots have been unveiled.
The use of drones to kill suspected terrorists is controversial, but so long as a human being decides whether to fire the missile, it is not a radical shift in how humanity wages war. Since David killed Goliath, warring armies have sought ways to more effectively kill their enemies while protecting their troops.
However, a new innovation has come to the battlefield which is unparalleled in the art of war. It strongly appears that DARPA developed military robots have the capacity to identify and to attack enemy soldiers on the battlefield and decide on their own whether to go for the kill. Do the DARPA killer robots possess the capacity to hunt down a human being? View the following for the unquestionable answer to this question.
In 2010, an Air Force report speculated that with increased robot capabilities, the human soldier will be obsolete. The Defense Department road map for killer robot systems states that its final goal is the unsupervised ability for (killer robots) mechanical assets to carry out their specified missions. In other words, the world will witness entire units of killer robots carrying out their missions without any human oversight. Isn’t the next logical step for these totally independent killer robots to be devise their own mission goals? This brings into distinct real of possibility of a man vs. machine war in our future and it could very well transpire within our children’s lifespan. Science will inevitably pass the realm of science fiction.
Although the Pentagon still requires autonomous DARPA killer robots to maintain human oversight, the real advantage of such a weapons system would lie within the ability for the weapons systems to have the capacity to make judgments on the battlefield. This one principle runs contrary to maintaining human oversight. Soon, it is clear, that the DARPA killer robots will soon be operating autonomously.
With the advent of killer robots, an international killer robot arms race will take place resulting in future battles being fought between competing armies of AI robots. Will the rules of war apply? What about the Geneva Conventions? If a DARPA killer robot commits atrocities against humans, will it held accountable? Does accountability even matter to an inanimate object? So what if a robot is “put to death,” and a duplicate is constructed. Can science ever develop a conscience for a killer robot? And if the purpose for the killer robots is war, why would governments provide an ethics override mechanism?
Human soldiers (e.g. Gestapo) have been programmed to commit genocide. It is a far simpler task to program a robot to commit the act more efficiently and without any second thoughts. Dictators always face the threat of human insurrection against their tyranny. With an army of DARPA killer robots, the threat of a palace revolt would be removed. In fact, killer robots are a perfect choice to carry out Obama’s NDAA provisions for disappearing and murdering political dissidents. If a present or future American dictator wished to eliminate a class of people from society, Nazi style, the killer robots are the ideal selection due to the efficiency of this weapons system.
Fox News reported that Human Rights Watch is advocating for a ban on these artificial weapons systems. I believe that humanity has more to fear from DARPA killer robots than creating an unethical and brutal army and/or tyrannical police force. When considering the principle of Moore’s Law, in which computer capacity doubles every 18 months, how long will it be until these machines will develop the capacity to stop following orders and begin to make their own decisions? And what if in their new found decision making process, the DARPA killer robots stop viewing “foreign robots” as the enemy and begin to focus on man as their new enemy? Since their prime directive is killing, how long would it take until humans become the most endangered species on the planet? Perhaps the DARPA killer robots will create an Agenda 21 style of a human “Wildlands/Human Refuge Zone” creation, which will prevent robot intrusion into protected human habitats, except, of course, during hunting season.
¿Nazi style or jewish style? Please stop the jewish propaganda. No more talk about the nazi myth. We now know that the jewish version of WWII is a huge lie (If in doubt watch the movie by jewish historian “David Cole in Auschwitz”.
The real murderers were jew Lenin (19 million christians) and jew Stalin (44 million christians).
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thank you for your note but I am truly aware of Zionism and understand its implications. You, however, seem to be blinded by it, to the exclusion of real historical events and their implications. There were death camps, I have talked to GI’s who helped liberate them. There was the brutal SS and the Gestapo. They became the model for the East German Stasi. The Stasi became the model for Homeland Security. Not every piece of history is a lie. To ignore these realities is to skip over a valuable part of history which could help us predict how far this will go and in what form. My suggestions is not let emotions blind you to having a balanced view on this topic. We are clearly going under an East German Stasi police state and the model included the SS and the Gestapo (eg secret arrests, warrantless spying, etc).
Mao, Stalin AND Hitler gives us an accurate laboratory to analyze what a police state entails and to understand the implications for the people.
If governments extended the hand of friendship to all nations instead of seeking ways to kill each other then all the problems of the world would disappear overnight. No more hungry or homeless and fulfillment with gainful employment for everyone. But, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?- All day long they injure my cause, all their thoughts are against me for evil. Turn to me and be saved all you ends of the Earth.” Turn to God and live.
This is cannibalism by proxy. It is an act of cannibalism to use other humans as prey.
Cannibalism is absolutely forbidden. Period.
The lawyers who legalize the design and manufacture of this “mierda” are expert deceivers. They would have the domestic property living in fear of their mechanical instruments. In the fantasy legal world they woul make it a capital crime to target their machines [or even think of it] Shoot down a drone and be hunted by their robot extensions. Master race indeed. In Mindwars, there’s only one conclusion…human cattle.
We need to nip this one in the bud. Killer Robots represent an insane use of technology. I’ve started a petition on the “We The People” website against the creation and use of independently operating robots on the battlefield. Please stop by and sign my petition to let the government know that we are against such madness. You can sign it here: http://wh.gov/Npih
This story was described by Stanislaw Lem, polish science-fiction writer and futurologist, in his story “The Washing Machine Tragedy”. You can read it here, published in The New Yorker in 1981.
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1981-11-30#folio=044
or here:
http://books.google.pl/books?id=1DNVzphAHD0C&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=The+Washing+Machine+Tragedy&source=bl&ots=7YXhZ0oeZV&sig=DibasRZp6bCKDyjVKt4VA4Hucug&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yQLBUNWPGKiC4ASer4Ag&redir_esc=y
YES, autonomous, sentient robots ARE coming. (side note: just 1 vital reason why firearms must not be confiscated and ammo types must never be regulated) Think about it, science fiction/ “fiction” authors such as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, to geniuses like da Vinci , all gave us a form of predictions that have come to pass. Just like Dave’s examples above, sci-fi shows and movies, such as Star Trek or The Terminator are again, a form of what will come to pass. (In some cases, these programs are the result of a type of predictive programming where knowledge of an actual fact or event is filtered down where they may become movie scripts or television plots. Of course the masses are clueless of this)
My idea is this: Flawed Begets Flawed. Human Beings are a flawed species, whether by design or accident. We are flawed. Any attempt humans make to play God and create AI for any purpose, will result in an even more flawed creation. Robots will be akin to Psychopaths because they do not have the checks and balances that humans normally do (which have a questionable success rate as it is) And because AIs of the future will have much greater intelligence than any Human or group of Humans, any attempt to program empathy, or a computer conscience or genrally “pull the plug”, will eventually be circumvented by the AI/robot(s). Akin to Frankenstein’s monster, once the automatons realize their superiority and their creators inferiority, All bets will be off.
Humans will be subordinate and/or exterminated by their own creations. This is not a game.
Then they will enlist the World of Warcraft world champion…
oh, wait, all the champions are in Asia, ditto for robotics manufacturing… I wonder who will win?
Does anyone believe that humans haven’t already been cloned? Are movies like Avatar a look into what is possible? What will happen to all of the useless eaters and useful idiots when our services are no longer needed? The Borg is Hollywood’s depiction of trans-humanism.