Should We Fear
Killer Robots? November 14, 2017
Questions
1. What are autonomous
weapons?
2. What is concerned
about them?
3. Suppose you were an
infantry soldier of a developed country. Do you think you would welcome the use
of autonomous weapons in operations? Why or why not?
Answer Keys
1. Autonomous weapons are
highly-developed robots embedded with AI used for the purpose of killing
enemies on the battlefield. They automatically choose targets and decide how to
deal with them.
2. The main concern is
increase of the death toll of ordinary citizens by introduction of autonomous
weapons. Although it is argued that they will be freer from mistakes and more
efficient than humans, they have vulnerabilities inherent in machines. They are
easily to be deceived and disrupted by undetectable images intended to confuse
the system and planted among other regular images. Machines also lack
flexibility. A slight change of specification or environment will lower the
performance. Last but not least, they cannot deal with moral decisions.
Preciousness of life is not their concern.
3.
I would have mixed feelings about introduction
of .autonomous weapons into battle grounds if I were an infantry soldier of a
developed country. If killer robots are deployed in the front lines instead of
humans, the cases of injury and death in the troop of my country will go down. Misidentification
and friendly fire may become rare. Yet replacing human soldiers with machines
in the work of shooting down humans in ground warfare will change the nature of
battles. It starts the automatization of sweeping operation. These machines are
usually used not against developed countries but over so-called terrorist
groups in poor countries. Their use is technically manhunt by machines. I
wonder if it is permissible. Also, there is no standard in actual operations.
If a slight anomaly can make the machine not only useless but also dangerous,
the rate of collateral damage will be high.
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