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.
Sirius is a robot built at the University of Sydney that can do deep sea exploration. It recently surveyed cuttlefish in the Tasman Sea.
Then there’s the Deep Flight Super Falcon, built by a Californian inventor.
That all sounds very worthy and fun, but the real opportunities for deep sea exploration are in mining. With [...]
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 [...]