>The more challenging topic is military/government use of robots in war or citizen control scenarios. Absolutely not challenging. They will come and will be us

>The more challenging topic is military/government use of robots in war or citizen control scenarios. Absolutely not challenging. They will come and will be used. Nothing you can do about it unless you DRM everything. And then of course the government will still have them. Topic closed. >Interesting that the article focuses on the unintentional killing of people by robots I doubt that there was ever killing. The first two examples are people trying to do maintenance on plugged machines. If you try to fix moving steamroller by standing in front of the wheel - don't be surprised at the consequences. The south africa one - it depends - if the turret just misfired in this general direction - is no different than a mine or shell exploding. If it scanned the soldiers, recognized them as targets and then shoot - then it is killing.