Robots and War: Everything You Were Afraid to Ask..Afraid to

P. W. Singer, a Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and author...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• uchannel
• lectures
• academic
• princeton
• wws

[legendre007]

33:22 "Anyone who talks in absolutes, is always wrong."

Is it an ABSOLUTE that anyone who talks in absolutes is always wrong? ;-)

If the answer is no, then that leaves room for the possibility that there can be a case when someone is right to talk in absolutes.

If the answer is yes, then the statement contradicts itself into incoherence.

[VigilantnotMilitant]

I once heard "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Yet one of my favorite professors would return with "It's not that we fail to learn from history. It's that it teaches us the wrong lessons." Then he would cite WWII.

Singer's urgent call to rethink the social contract, war, and the global order comes at the 11th hour. His clarity and recall couldn't be more appreciated while delivering this dire message. We are confronted now with vexing decisions. I can still hope.

[emotionalinvalid]

robotic save lives for the imperialists. human beings still die on the other end of the drone attack, some misquided killer geek using a joystick for so called smart weapons that still cause collateral damage: i.e. civilians. And who gives us the arrogance to think that our soldiers are more important to our corporate/military complex's dictators enemies soldiers.  soldiers are just the poor bastards forced to do the leaders bidding. american or foreign grunts are people too.

[unit666industries]

self leaning battle file intelligence.

[Axbent]

If a robot can take orders directly from the highest command and execute missions, it cuts out the consciusness of the soldier that has moral and feeling of cause. This creates a very scary situation were the state or elements in it, or any other rouge element in society, can turn the tech agianst the ppl funding it. A wannabe dictator has an unprecedented availbility to an army!

[joekiddent]

the answer is 42...... i thought about it a long time......

[silverblue73]

i disagree that robots could be so easy to take out. it's all about the amount of forethought that went into their design. what you need is fall-back systems that operate on either different levels at the same time or one after the other. how many ways are there to get a picture? sonic, thermal, optical. you wouldn't be able to stop the robot by targeting a single sensory unit.

[silverblue73]

damn, shut the hell up

[Jai666666666]

Isn't that speaker the guy that did those psycho films dressed as his mother: Mother! God, now I remember why I dropped out of University. I want to see the world go up in flames and murder billions for this guy to be safe at his motel disguised as his mother knocking off tourists..., I don't think so. LOL

[Jai666666666]

This is crude stuff. What about nano tech, you can have them enter an organism and broad cast their location to be joined by millions of others and once in the human host assemble in the brain like a transformer and boom! Doesn't that sound better. One nano can't do much, but many that can reassemble once all the proper nanos are together can take IT out. Come on, come on this is a great fucken idea, give them a few billion and just let clouds of nanos out like chem trails, come on!

[Jai666666666]

Hey, hey, you got to watch the robot cops again, they were the best..., my favorite line when the robots were killing everyone in the demonstration room: Behave yourselves!

[Jai666666666]

I'll be back...