Currently Targeting... ethical robots
(Nov.25.08) -
Ethical Robots ---»
...Ala Skynet, ethical robots, and persuasively designed technology, “My research hypothesis is that intelligent robots can behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans currently can,†said Ronald C. Arkin, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech, who is designing software for battlefield robots under contract with the Army. “That’s the case I make.†And furthermore: […]
(Nov.06.08) -
Skynet Threat Update ID: 34491 ---»
...Skynet Threat Update Tracker for Nov. 5, 2008: Ecophagy DRE-700 Perhaps the earliest-recognized and best-known danger of molecular nanotechnology is the risk that self-replicating nanorobots capable of functioning autonomously in the natural environment could quickly convert that natural environment (e.g., “biomass”) into replicas of themselves (e.g., “nanomass”) on a global basis, a scenario usually referred […]
