Read the following transcript of a CNN
report on autonomous weapons and answer the questions.
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 of
the introduction of autonomous weapons is increase of the death toll of
ordinary citizens. Although it is argued that they make fewer mistakes and are more
efficient than humans, they have vulnerabilities inherent in machines. They are
easily to be deceived and disrupted by undetectable information intended to
confuse the system and planted among other regular information. 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 on the front lines instead of
humans, the cases of injury and death in the troops of my country will go down.
Misidentification and friendly fire may become rare. Yet replacing human
soldiers with machines in ground warfare will change the nature of battles. It is
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 morally
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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