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Now that we're in the SF movie with the black president and the flying killer robots, James Poulos adds:
I have to say, there's something about drones that makes me queasy. Maybe it's the whole robots-with-guns thing. We're a long ways away from the day when machines programmed to kill fight wars so human Americans don't have to, but I think the following principle is important to keep in at least the back of our minds going forward: war is something awful, serious, and dangerous enough that real people should have to do the bulk of it. Assassinating evildoers in remote locations is one thing; getting in the habit of outsourcing death and destruction to the bots is another.

Date: 2010-09-03 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur123.livejournal.com
Today, my company got the contract to make the sensor modules for a flying robot that will detect and kill up to ten humans per minute. FML.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/planes-uavs/4313331

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