Robot Predators

View larger image Cool Raw: Army’s New ‘Crusher’ Robot Tests the Tough Terrain Related Stories Short of staff, Norway eyes robot care for elderly Montreal hospital puts $4 million surgeon-assisted robot into service Robot 'could simplify hip surgery' "Green" robot self-propels through sea		An article at Breitbart raises the issue of the danger to us all as the military acquires autonomous, gun-totting robots. Trials of these machines in Iraq have been successful, Why is that surprising ? Calling these things robots is a but of scare mongering. They are nto fully independent because they lack intellegence, if anything they are closer to guided missiles on tracks than to silicon Kama Kazi, The real danger here, as with other smart weapons is the logarithmic increase of the ability to treat war like a video game .. with minimal risk to our humans and maximal speration of reality from perception. This seems to to also lie at the core of the Iraq debate. Rummy et al seemed to believe we could do this thing at minila loss of American lives. In a sense he was correct, BUT invading Iraq turns out to be a lot easier and less denmanding of our treasure of peoplke and money that re-engineering a human society. So here is the nubbin. I am not scared of Terminators in the near future. I am scared of policiians awho are freed from the burden of human sacrifice by the ready avilablility of smart weapons. The article also addresses the issue of terorists getting control of this technology. Again, I do not see this as all that new except for one thing. Unlike nuclear bombs and large missiles, robotics is a chaep technology with costs likely not plummet. Ther eis every reason to believe thgat evena small terrorist group will have the ability to lauch smart drones very soon and .. while indefensible, the marginal cost to society is inevitably goinbg to grow. Maybe a terminator ain't so bad?