TRY TO STAY ON THE GOOD SIDE OF YOUR FUTURE ROBOT MASTERS

As if you don’t have enough to worry about, a report funded by the U.S. Navy has warned that the nightmare sci-fi scenario of robot soldiers turning on humans in the future is all too plausible. The report titled “Autonomous Military Robotics - Risk, Ethics and Design” suggests that autonomous military robots must be programmed to live by some kind of strict warrior code in order to prevent seriously freaky scenarios in the future. “There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do,” wrote Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report. “Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated... there is little hope that the early generations of such systems and robots will be adequate, making mistakes that may cost human lives.” (Times Online)