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Re:Rise of the Machines: The Future Has Lots of Robots, Few ... by LordKano on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @11:47AM (#9341529)
Maybe The Terminator and Robocop had a deeper effect on my young psyche than I recognize but what I find truly terrifying is the day when first world nations can completely automate military and law enforcement.

A human being can have internal dialog, "Yes, I know that no one is supposed to be here but I'm not blowing up a building full of toddlers." or "Yes, I know that it's a crime but I'm not going to use deadly force to apprehend someone who was stealing apples to survive." and obviously, machines won't care.

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Re:Rise of the Machines: The Future Has Lots of Robots, Few ... by marcosdumay on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @01:03PM (#9342202)
Machine warfare is something so anti-intuitive that my head spins.

How said that watever should be a crime, and why? (Those are much deeper questions than it looks like.) Also, machines can avoid deadly force much better than humans, and apply it better too.

I think after enough casualities we'll settle on some superb law enforcement. More "human" than anything we can imagine today. But the path through there is complicated.

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