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In the 1990's I was working on Ph.D. in robotics, and funded by a huge DARPA grant. The task was to create software for multi-agent robot coordination. The text
by minerjoe 6y ago
In the 1990's I was working on Ph.D. in robotics, and funded by a huge DARPA grant. The task was to create software for multi-agent robot coordination. The text of the grants always said things like needing to gain the capabiity to send thousands of autonomous robots into a town in order to map out and investigate all the buildings, etc, all for "defense". To verify if a hospital is actually a hospital, for example. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that you only had to put a bomb in their belly and game over. I wonder why they even tried to make it sound not like they just wanted to be able to drop thousands of robots from a plane and take over and destroy any city.
- vharuck 6y agoI'd guess they planned to do what they said: see if a hospital is a hospital. Then they'd drop bombs from planes, the old fashioned way, making sure to avoid any off-limits buildings. Of course, it's still tech for killing, so the moral quandary doesn't change.