Your opinions on killer robots wanted!

[sabotabby]

Opinion Survey on the Use of Robots Capable of Lethal Force in Warfare!

Sample question:

45. Please list any specific issues or concerns that were not addressed in this survey that you may have with the potential military use of robots capable of taking human life. Be as specific as possible.

Sample responses:

• Making it easier for the U.S. to start wars without risking backlash over soldiers' deaths.

• Robot overlords starting wars on their own accord and turning us into their slaves.

Post your issues and concerns here!

(Hat tip: krinndnz.)

Comments

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

I think the biggest issues with robots won't that they'll be used as killing machines. All machines eventually get used as killing machines, unfortunately.

What concerns me the most is what will happen as human labor becomes increasingly irrelevant. Already in America 75% of people are in service jobs, most of them low level, like burger flipping. What happens to us, to people, when it becomes cheaper to buy a robot to do that labor than pay a person to do it?

The second issue is very BSG, hehe. What happens when we are more sexually attracted to robots than to people? When AIs get good enough, and robots defeat the uncanny divide, that a robot is a much better partner and lover than a real person could ever be?

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

er, I meant to post that burger/salad question in this thread.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

I think it would be a great world if human labour was irrelevant, than we would have more time to do creative tasks and knowledge-based work instead of living like drones for 8 hours a day. This would save the burger-flipping to dinner time when we are preparing for dinner with a loved-one instead of having it as a mind-less career. Not to mention how much cheaper everything would be if we had solar powered robots doing all this work instead of slow innefficient carbon-fuel-based humans (sweaty and smelly ones that spit in your food for that matter!).

In my belief, however, I don't think that robots will ever take away human labour jobs but will only replace them. Instead of flipping burgers we are punching numbers into a commputer screen all day, for example.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

Soon, and they're training computers and robots to do this, I suspect that other than for creative labor, even those jobs will simply . . . go away, and be totally mechanized. Indeed, I expect to live to see the day when computers and robots replace even creative labor.

I HOPE that the robotic revolution will mean we get to do what we want, when we want it, but in the current economic paradigm? No, I don't think so.