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The primary purpose of that shotgun is IED/UXO disruption, ostensibly. It's unfortunate that the robots have been used as weapons, and that people aren't in pri
by frickinLasers 5y ago
The primary purpose of that shotgun is IED/UXO disruption, ostensibly. It's unfortunate that the robots have been used as weapons, and that people aren't in prison for it.
But I think arming AI-equipped drones specifically to kill is a much more worrisome threat.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoI mean, I get that some jargon is clear to those who have an interest in the topic. But how the hell is it acceptable to use sth like "IED/UXO" on an article about ethics? This is so obviously not a well known term (and not searchable). My mind boggles.
- GartzenDeHaes 5y agoExplosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Improvised Explosive Device (IED), Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). Civilian police use of robotics started with EOD robots, often borrowed from the military.
- kurthr 5y agoI'm guessing you're not in the US (or UK) where IED and PTSD acronyms have been used so much in the context of physical and psychological injury in the Middle East tha they are pop culture hard to avoid knowing. Certainly, in the US, the first term that pops up in a search for IED is: IED /ˌīēˈdē/ noun: a simple bomb made and used by unofficial or unauthorized forces. Danger UXB (UneXplodedBomb) was a popular British drama 30+ years ago.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI assume you aren't American, Canadian, or Western European. The news constantly discussed IEDs in the context of the Iraq and Afghan wars and UXO is used whenever a bomb is discovered leftover from one of the World Wars. It is also very searchable, at least to me. The results returned are very relevant. https://www.google.com/search?q=IED%2FUXO&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA852CA852&oq=IED%2FUXO&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=IED%2FUXO&rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA85...
- trhway 5y ago>But how the hell is it acceptable to use sth like "IED/UXO" on an article about ethics? how the hell do you expect to understand an article on autonomous drones ethics without knowing that IED/UXO means? It makes obvious that you lack basic knowledge of modern factual landscape in the domain, and how do you expect to understand ethics of the domain without basic factual knowledge of the domain?
- pessimizer 5y agoThe argument that those acronyms are a requirement for the understanding of the ethics of autonomous killer robots is a very difficult one.
- trhway 5y agoit is a major drone use case. Understanding an ethics of technology without knowledge of major use cases - that is a difficult argument.
- frickinLasers 5y agoMy bad, dude. The ambiguity has been addressed in other people's replies.
- alfalfasprout 5y agoBetter robots than people in that position.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoIs that a joke?
- throwaway894345 5y agoDidn’t they use a robot to take out the Dallas sniper who was targeting whites and police. I don’t really see what is wrong with that situation. I get why there is fear about using them in the general case however.