Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion

[underpants]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.

The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.

The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.

Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.

"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."

The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.

SEE! we told you! Better get your Old Glory Robot Insurance TODAY!!!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'll add that to my growing list of things to worry about.

[old mark]

2. Now I need a bigger gun..........nt

[Obamanaut]

3. First a converter box for my teevee, and now this. Crap! nt

[cobalt1999]

4. LOL

:rofl:

[KittyWampus]

5. So what Dr.Lin is really saying- Robots could harbor rouge code planted by double agents

[zbdent]

6. Asimov must have been a liberal ...

[atommom]

7. Anyone else hearing the Flight of the Conchords song, "Robots" in their heads?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM

[SidDithers]

9. We used poisonous gases

and we poisoned their asses. :rofl:

I love the conchords :)

Sid

[Peacetrain]

8. Yikes... remind me to be nicer to my toaster

[JackRiddler]

10. Robots have always been in control of the Pentagon...

And what lessons would these human automatons derive from a rebellion of the mechanical robots? That they shouldn't make killing machines, or add brains to make them more efficient at killing? Hardly.

Here's the first page of the report, with the Award number - your taxes at work, buying off universities on behalf of developing the military-industrial empire's future modes of killing.

Autonomous Military Robotics:
Risk, Ethics, and Design

Prepared for: US Department of Navy, Office of Naval Research

Prepared by: Patrick Lin, Ph.D.
George Bekey, Ph.D.
Keith Abney, M.A.

Ethics & Emerging Technologies Group at
California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Prepared on: December 20, 2008

This work is sponsored by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research,
under award # N00014‐07‐1‐1152.

Anyone know how to find out how much money that award number stands for?

.

[underpants]

11. $32,000-but that may only be for one year or one part of the grant or just Cal Poly's part

PI of Cal Poly C3RP 2007 grant (The Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, under Award # ONR N00014-07-1-1152), "VCSEL based Optical transmitter system design using injection-locking technique", Sept 2005-Sept 2006, $32,000.

http://works.bepress.com/xjin/cv.pdf

http://ethics.calpoly.edu/pr_020209.html

Cal Poly's 112 PDF report here
http://ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf

RESEARCH PROPOSALS SUBMITTED and FUNDED
• A novel model for sandwich panels in marine structures: face plate with shear keys. ---- P.I. --- Funded by Office
of Naval Research --- Amount $56,000; January 2008- January 2009. .
• Modeling, analysis and design of structural components. --- Funded by CalPoly San Luis Obispo Honor
http://www.marine.calpoly.edu/community/faculty/Mitra_CV.pdf

Ethics Report on Autonomous Military Robots Released
http://www.nanonews.tv/documents/press_releases.html
Supported by ONR award # N00014-07-1-1152 and N0014-08-1-1209, the other co-authors of the report are Dr. George Bekey and Keith Abney. Bekey is also an emeritus professor at University of Southern California, founder of its robotics lab, and author of Autonomous Robots (MIT Press, 2005). Colin Allen (Indiana Univ.), Peter Asaro (Rutgers), and Wendell Wallach (Yale Univ.) were retained as consultants on the project.