We will never really know what the future have for us but it seems that we, human, have decided to link our future with robots.
Since the early 50’s robots have first ease people burden at work then properly left millions people jobless. The problem is that they came unnoticed and when people try to do something about it, it’s often too late.
Nothing can stop progress: People have been killed for this motto in the 18th, 19th, 20th century and it maybe still the case today. Nevertheless this motto still
holds today whatever the price to pay. Why? Nobody likes to be left behind.
Take a look at the staggering figures of corporates research spendings, often encouraged by states tax incentives.
Or why no one is able to stop the madness of corporates like Monsanto or Bayer even if we all know that their products are harmful to our environment?
You will tell me, as they employ thousand of people it is difficult to for governments to act or that Bayer can pay lobbies or even bribes officials. Not at all!
The research that Bayer or Monsanto conducts are too important for science and progress. And no state wants to be left behind in this race to progress synonymous with loss of influence in the world.
People were worrying about artificial intelligence AI, bots are everywhere and there is always something new about them everyday but today we are facing a bigger problem, killer robots:
Policy makers have been discussing how to avoid a rise of killer machines this week in Geneva.
Countries disagree on how to deal with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), Terminator’s name in his birth certificate. At least 22 countries support a full ban on his kind. But more than a dozen countries, including, the US, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia and the UK may be developing them, warns Human Rights Watch.
So we will probably see one of this Terminator in our street sooner or later.
In Geneva, officials were discuting wether or not “humans should make the decisions with regard to the use of lethal force, exert sufficient control over lethal weapons systems they use, and remain accountable for decisions over life and death.”
In other words, terminator killing people in the street it is or not a violation of international humanitarian law?
I personally think that we have to worry:
First, according what we are witnessing today in Syria and the use or not of sarin gas, prohibited by humanitarian and International law. It will be easy to use terminator and explain after that it was nobody’s fault.
Finally we don’t know yet are the cops will welcome terminator. They may be pleased by the idea But remember, robots tends to replace humans…
