Steve:How about an international ban on the deployment of all unmanned and automated weapons?
You might as well ask for a ban on war (or, perhaps, aggression). I strongly recommend reading the SciAm July 2010 issue on robotic warfare. The US already operates from memory somewhere between 13,000 and 20,000 unmanned weapons. "Unmanned war" (obviously with some but ever less human supervision) IS the future of war. If you used a little lateral thinking, you'd realise that this may well be a v.g. thing - let robots kill each other rather than humans - whoever's robots win, wins the war. It would be interesting to compare Afghan./Vietnam - I imagine the kill count is considerably down (but correct me) - *because* of superior, more automated technology. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
