I don’t celebrate all advances in technology. More precisely, I don’t appreciate certain uses of new technology. Following are the first two lines of an article I read in The Sun:
“ISRAEL used
the first ever drone swarm deployed in battle to hunt down Hamas terrorists, it
was reported.
The drones
have no human input but instead link together using artificial intelligence to
seek out their targets.”
In plain
English, Israel dispatched robots to fly out on their own for the purpose of
hunting and killing people.
Deeper in the
article, I read this:
“The basic
idea of a drone swarm is that its machines are able to make decisions among
themselves.”
I think this
is a line we should never have crossed.
Did I expect to
see this line crossed?
Yes.
If you are
Country X and your drones are on the hunt, I suppose this might sound
wonderful. But Country X is not alone in
seeking to use drone swarms. At present,
Israel, the UK, Russia, the United States and China are tinkering with this
technology.
This not a
good operating space for some of the aforementioned countries. For now, I am mostly afraid of the humans
behind the killing robots. But the more
autonomous and efficient the killing machines become, the more we should fear
the machines themselves.
—Mitchell Hegman
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