Leave that to me
!
That is what some well wishers of humanity seems to be
telling the robots
A report by Human Rights Watch ( along with Harvard Law
School International Human Rights Clinic ) says :
" Control
of critical functions by humans during combat, including the selections of
targets, saves lives and ensures compliance with international law
Now there is a real threat that humans would relinquish
their control and delegate life-and-death decisions to machines "
Human Rights Watch wants UN to ban such " Killer
Robots "
Meaning ? Getting killed by ,
* a flying UAV is OK but not by a
walking Robot ?
* AK 47 is OK but not by " Cluster
Bombs " ?
* tanks is OK but not by an Atom Bomb ?
* rockets is OK but not by Chemical
Weapons ?
What HRW seems to be saying, is :
Getting killed by a human is OK but not by a Robot ?
Who are we trying to fool ?
Passing resolutions in UN may not make any difference
Super Powers have been violating these with impunity
for ages !
Humanity's only hope of not getting extinct at the hands
of robots is some Computer Scientist , who develops a software algorithm ,
which incorporates Isaac Asimov's following " Laws of Robotics " and
automatically gets embedded into all existing robots ( on factory floors /
homes etc ) and infects all future robots :
1. A robot may not
injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey
the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict
with the First Law.
3. A robot must
protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the
First or Second Laws.
That is our only HOPE
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www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
15 April 2016
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