Armed, sentient robot, or glorified radio controlled car?
If you’ve ever watched TV footage of war zones or seen bomb disposal experts detonating suspicious looking packages and cars, chances are you’ll have see what many people refer to as an intelligent battle robot. A robot used by the police and the military to access the areas deemed far too dangerous for any human being to enter.
The debate is, are these robots, intelligent ‘decision making’ robots, or they radio controlled cars with knobs on? This discussion raged for years, with the robots’ creators (companies such as Foster-Miller) claiming they were making intelligent robots and not just RC cars for soldiers. It wasn’t until the developments in the recent Gulf war that US politicians came onside and requested the robots be armed.
But arming a robot? Haven’t we seen this before? We know where this leads, Hollywood has taught us that lesson if nothing else.
John Biggs asks should these battle robots be armed? Should we be giving guns to what is essentially a lump of metal, plastic and wires, and hope that it doesn’t go all ‘Skynet’ on us and end up killing someone?
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