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

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.

Kurzweil's goal is to build a search engine that's so smart it'll act like a "cybernetic friend". We're sure that's what Skynet's creators thought before the Terminator appeared on the scene. And with Google's purchase of (primarily military) robotics specialist Boston Dynamics last month we're genuinely starting to get a little worried.

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RT @dailydot: RoboEarth is a cloud network that lets robots teach each other new Skynet seems closer every day:

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Apparently, Google’s robotics division needs to scare the pants off of the rest of the world.

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