Can we sentence Microsoft to be tried in The Hague for war crimes? Tempting as this option may be, especially after Windows 8, it seems unlikely. If interactions between armed robots were to trigger combat between major powers, there might be nobody left alive to try to figure out what had gone wrong.
"Machines lack morality and mortality, and as a result should not have life and death powers over humans,"
Like it or not, science fiction is becoming science fact. The Terminator was, of course, a work of fiction, but the idea of cyborgs and killer machines is not all that farfetched. In fact, the danger is becoming so real that the Obama Administration found the need to spell out explicit rules that specify under what circumstances machines are allowed to kill humans.
New 2013 DARPA Building Real Life Terminators Military Robots:
RT @mims: Hard not to imagine Sergei Brin watching Terminator films on Google Glass, cheering for the machines
Ellison, the founder of Annapurna Pictures is key player associated with writer Mark Boal and one of the Wikileaks Movie efforts.
Yesterday, the United States Department of Energy announced that national research laboratories had finally created a bionic eye to meet Food and Drug Administration standards. And so our transformation into human-cyborg hybrids takes another giant step forward.
Researchers Give Lab Rats Terminator-Like Infrared Vision
From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow