Sunday, July 19, 2009
New robots may find a use for the Taliban
Pentagon contractor in Maryland is now working on a robot that can forage for its own food. It could use any biomass in the area. There’s plenty of biomass just lying around all shot up or bombed to death and not doing anything for the war effort. So the robots, and potentially vehicles based on the same design, will be feeding off the flesh of slain humans to continue on their mission to slay humans and feed off their flesh.
IMO: Fiction writer Asimov's 'Laws of robotics' may be handy. If anyone actually cared - and Guantanimo Bay past and present makes this highly unlikely - it would be easy to detect life etc. and avoid needless deaths, so such robots have no intrinsic potential for war crimes. Certainly such robots could leave a landscape tidy and less prone to disease. Bearing in mind the flu epidemic after WW1 and even the currrent swine flu, such robots have life-enhancing and cost-cutting advantages.
IMO: Fiction writer Asimov's 'Laws of robotics' may be handy. If anyone actually cared - and Guantanimo Bay past and present makes this highly unlikely - it would be easy to detect life etc. and avoid needless deaths, so such robots have no intrinsic potential for war crimes. Certainly such robots could leave a landscape tidy and less prone to disease. Bearing in mind the flu epidemic after WW1 and even the currrent swine flu, such robots have life-enhancing and cost-cutting advantages.
# posted by uv : 4:19 AM
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