Sometimes the United Nations distracts us from their worthlessness by displaying their stupidity:
"Moratoria are needed to prevent steps from being taken that may be difficult to reverse later," Heyns said in a 22-page report on "lethal autonomous robotics", due to be discussed at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on May 29.
"Their deployment may be unacceptable because no adequate system of legal accountability can be devised and because robots should not have the power of life and death over human beings."
People have been put out of the kill loop for a long time. Pits with stakes, trained attack dogs, mines, IEDs, torpedoes, electrified barriers, guided missiles or bombs. Those are robotic weapons of one type or another where humans aren't in the loop for immediate kill decisions.
People seem only to get upset when we find ways to fight nutballs without risking our own people. Seriously, I'm not terribly happy that a lot of so-called people have the power of life and death over human beings.
I mean, if the jihadi claim that they love death while we love life is true, aren't our killer robots a win-win for both sides? I'm starting to think Mr. Heyns might be a little culturally insensitive, here. Hmm.
Let's just make sure our robots are better than their robots.
Good grief, even the papal ban against crossbows didn't apply to use against non-Christians.
I like the idea of fighting jihadis with robots. I think there is enough grey area in the Koran about dying while fighting robots that uncertainty about going to Paradise will hurt morale.
