Saturday, February 23, 2013

Killer robots must be stopped, say campaigners

10:36 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

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autonomous, which could be ready by ten years, represent a serious threat to international law, activists say

a new global campaign to persuade nations to prohibit "the murderers of robots" before reaching the stage of production was launched in the UK by a group of academics, lobbyists and awards the Nobel Peace Prize.

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autonomous war and weapons, the next step of drones are already being developed by scientists and will be available within a decade, said Dr. Noel Sharkey, robotics expert attack and artificial intelligence and professor at the University of Sheffield. He believes that the development of weapons carried in an unregulated environment effectively, paying little attention to the moral law and international.

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Killer Robots will be launched in April in the House of Commons, and includes many groups have successfully campaigned for international action brought against cluster bombs and landmines. They hope to get a global treaty against weapons as autonomous.

"These things are not science fiction, but thrive," said Sharkey. "Wing of the Pentagon's research in the United States working on the X47B [unmanned aircraft] which twists supersonic and turns with a G-force that no human can manage, take an art that autonomous armed struggle any place on the planet.

"United States already train pilots of drones more than the actual pilots, looking for young men who are very good at computer games. Looking for a swarm of robots, such a Once a person looks at what they do. "

Sharkey insists he is against the war, but deeply concerned by the rapid evolution of science are the assumptions underlying the Geneva Convention and international laws of war.

"There are a lot of people are excited about this technology, the United States, BAE Systems, China, Israel and Russia, very excited about what will become an industry billion. This money will be very, very big. But in reality, there is no transparency, no legal procedure. allow the laws of war for the rights to sell the rights of prisoners of war during a face human decision making collateral damage. humans think, sentient beings. If a robot goes wrong, who is responsible? Certainly not the robot. "
  • rejects the justification that the deployment of soldiers robots could save the lives of real soldiers. "Autonomous robotic arms get tired, do not seek revenge if your companion is dead, but not my washer. Nobody on their side could be killed, but what effect will the other side, not only in life but in attitudes and anger
"The public is invited to have an opinion on the morality of this. We will not hear about it until China has sold to Iran for them. Therefore we build this campaign to find a preventive measure.

"The idea is that this is a machine that is a goal, whether it is the right target, then kill him. Without human intervention. Article 36 of the Geneva Convention states that any new weapon to determine whether you can distinguish and discriminate between combatants and civilians, but the problem here is that an autonomous robot is not a weapon until the clip of the gun. "



Today, Sharkey said, there is no mechanism in the "spirit" of a robot to distinguish between a boy holding a candy and an adult with a gun. "We are fighting to make a distinction between a human and a car. Absolute incompetence we have seen in the use of drones, operators make many mistakes and not be properly supervised."
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