RT @BanKillerRobots: We are already being emotionally managed by the machines that we Will guilt + deceit be programmed in?

RT @BanKillerRobots: Fully autonomous weapons are never going to work b/c logic of war is asymmetrical based on different moral codes/conve…

Professor Martin Rees: Our Final Century? The risks posed by emerging 21st century technologies

Rebecca Solnit Diary: get off the bus

Terminator co-writer : « One of my inspirations was Darpa »

a lot of that kind of thing seems to be happening, between the NSA spying and Google (GOOG) Glass, which apparently has a new app with facial recognition software, designed to look at you and then your face compared to millions of others in the database, including social networks, and it comes up and tells the person who you are, where you live, and so forth and so on, and all the information that’s available to you in the Internet. Here we are, welcome to the future.

Google sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the robots

"IF WE CAN PROTECT INNOCENT CIVILIAN LIFE, I DO NOT WANT TO SHUT THE DOOR ON THE USE OF THIS TECHNOLOGY." Ron Arkin "this isn’t about killer robots or killer soldiers, this is about disaster response,’ but everybody knows what the real interest is," MG "Either we're going to decide not to do this, and have an international agreement not to do it, or it's going to happen." MG

All the pieces are now in place for a Google-created Skynet and the robotic Judgment Day apocalypse that would surely follow. Yes, Google might become the first big corporation to enact Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

Are Google building a TERMINATOR? Choc Factory buys AI firm DeepMind Technologies