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US Army engineer proposes Asimoving US killer bots

The Register

Posted: Apr 15, 2007

John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center has proposed coding killer robots in the battlefield to make autonomous decisions about destroying non-human enemy targets, but to ask for human permission to kill humans. “Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems” presentation can be downloaded as apdf. The Register points out Canning acknowledges that Asimoved robots might occasionally, accidentally, collaterally kill a human when targeting the AK-47 they are holding.

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