Battlefield robots may be equipped with an ethics module that tells them when to fire or not fire.
Sounds like a great idea but it’s solving an imaginary problem. Fully autonomous battlefield robots don’t exist. All robots used in military and law enforcement operations have a human calling the shots somewhere.
Interview with Alison Gopnik in Seed Magazine.
The picture we used to have of children was that they spent all of this time doing pretend play because they had these very limited minds, but in fact what we’ve now discovered is that children have more powerful learning abilities than we do as adults.
They already seem to [...]
Peter Singer on military robots.
“This is a booming new industry, and it’s not just an American industry,” he said. “There are 43 countries working on military robots right now. They’re countries like Britain, Israel — Israel’s very big into military robotics — China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan. … We actually shot down an Iranian drone [...]
A doctor, Dr Panayiotis Zavos, has claimed in a TV interview to have cloned nine embryos, in a secret lab somewhere in the Middle East.
It’s probably just an unfounded publicity stunt:
Professor Robert Winston, emeritus professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London, was blunter. “I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr [...]