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.
Military contractors routinely appear on TV and in movies as nefarious organisations that are up to no good. They’re easy to bash, since they have the magic combination of militarism and capitalism.
Yet when the government tries to take over a task that was previously outsourced – testing equipment – they screw it up.
Body-armor manufacturers are [...]
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 [...]