Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility. The Humans Right Watch Group said in a report Nov. 19 that these robots must be banned before governments start deploying them.
The report “Losing Humanity” — co-produced by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic — also raises the alarm over the ethics of the looming technology. Calling them “killer robots,” it urges “an international treaty that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons.
The problem with handing over decision-making power to even the most sophisticated robots is that there would be no clear way of making anyone answer for the mistakes. If a robot goes wrong, who’s accountable? It certainly won’t be the robot. The robot could take a bullet in its computer and go berserk. So there’s no way of really determining who’s accountable, and that’s very important for the laws of war, just think about it…
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