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Re:Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without ... by TallGuyShort on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:01PM (#4882848)
Is it just me, or is SkyNet's rational intelligence less scary than the people who will actually end up controlling these machines?

edit: I mean no disrespect to soldiers - I refer to the politicians.

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Re:Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without ... by lostlogin on Thursday December 06, 2012 @02:25PM (#4883345)
No disrespect to soldiers? Seen the Abu Ghraib photos? It isn't the fact it was soldiers so much as the fact the people keep doing things like that, year in year out. The problem as I see it is that people will make the machines better at committing atrocities.
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Re:Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without ... by StavrosK on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:55PM (#4883167)
It depends. If Skynet's morality were all about doing what benefits itself, it would basically be a sociopath. That's not very reassuring.
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