Showing posts with label biotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biotechnology. Show all posts

Friday 20 September 2013

Tomorrow's World???


     Sometimes when I read stuff I think, tomorrows are going to be shit. Then my optimism raises it foolish head, and I say, NAW, we can change it." Then on the other hand-----  "Biotechnology is plainly advancing rapidly, and by 2020 there will be thousands-even millions-of people with the capability to cause a catastrophic biological disaster,” Rees said. “My concern is not only organized terrorist groups, but individual weirdos with the mindset of the people who now design computer viruses.”

      Drones and other automated weapons systems are common on the battlefield - and even for police surveillance. But Human Rights Watch warn that Terminator-style robots - which can “decide” to kill - will be feasible in decades.
Human Rights watch claims several governments are working on the technology now. The U.S government in particular has admitted to working towards robotic weapons systems with ‘total autonomy’.
“There is an ongoing push to increase UGV - unmanned ground vehicle - autonomy, with an ultimate goal of full autonomy,” said a U.S military report in 2011.
       A U.S Air Force report in 2009 said, “Increasingly humans will no longer be ‘in the loop’ but rather ‘on the loop’—monitoring the execution of certain decisions. “Simultaneously, advances in AI will enable systems to make combat decisions without necessarily requiring human input.”

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