{"id":67495,"date":"2019-06-24T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67495"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:57:15","slug":"numerous-nations-governments-likely-developing-weapons-of-war-based-on-ai-robotics-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/06\/24\/numerous-nations-governments-likely-developing-weapons-of-war-based-on-ai-robotics-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous nations\/governments likely developing weapons of war based on AI, robotics, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nI just ran across this recently&#8230;what do you think of it?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HTPIED6jUdU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">For me, this is <em>extremely disturbing<\/em>. And if I were a betting man, I&#8217;d wager that numerous nations\/governments around the world &#8212; most certainly that includes the U.S. &#8212; have been developing new weapons of warfare for <em>years<\/em>\u00a0that are based on artificial intelligence, robotics, automation, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The question is, <em><strong>now<\/strong><\/em> what do we do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some very hard questions that numerous engineers and programmers need to be asking themselves these days&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">By the way, the background audio on the clip above should either be non-existent or far more ominous &#8212; this stuff is NOT a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/06\/21\/the-new-kind-of-warfare-being-waged-amongst-humankind-how-far-have-we-really-come-through-the-centuries-christian\/\">Also see this recent posting. &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Addendum on 6\/26\/19:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/6\/21\/18691459\/killer-robots-lethal-autonomous-weapons-ai-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Death by algorithm: the age of killer robots is closer than you think <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from vox.com by Kelsey Piper<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">We have the technology to make robots that kill without oversight. But should we?<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Experts in machine learning and military technology say it would be technologically straightforward to build robots that make decisions about whom to target and kill without a \u201chuman in the loop\u201d \u2014 that is, with no person involved at any point between identifying a target and killing them. And as facial recognition and decision-making algorithms become more powerful, it will only get easier.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I just ran across this recently&#8230;what do you think of it?! &nbsp; &nbsp; From DSC: For me, this is extremely disturbing. And if I were a betting man, I&#8217;d wager that numerous nations\/governments around the world &#8212; most certainly that includes the U.S. &#8212; have been developing new weapons of warfare for years\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,314,45,210,82,287,35,95,391,482,285,309,204,437,480,454,206,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-asia","category-computer-science","category-emerging-technologies","category-engineering","category-europe","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-intelligent-systems","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-programming","category-robotics","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-trends","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67521,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67495\/revisions\/67521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}