Not yet, but soon. Even the U.N. now agrees with me, or is starting to. It’s special rapporteur on extra-judiciary executions,
Christof Heyns,
is calling for a moratorium on “lethal autonomous robotics”.
Basically, he’s calling to outlaw robots that can kill people without
other people’s input. Heyns was quoted as saying, aptly, that
“[m]achines lack morality and mortality, and as a result should not have
life and death powers over humans.”
Well hallelujah, Christof!
Y’all know I’m only partially not-serious when I talk about the
Robogeddon
that is coming. I’m actually less scared of a Terminator-esque future
and way more worried about the government or military’s ability to
destroy with even less confrontation of humanity in their way. We
already see such brutality inflicted– even person to person– like all
over Turkey right now, where you can see police just brutalizing people,
maiming them, putting them in comas with point-blank tear-gas
cannisters to the head, and
threatening to rape them.
And then they call it “peace” in the most Orwellian of twists. If
that is what we are capable of, face to face, what will we be capable of
when it’s all automatic, unseen, and out of touch? What will we call
it when robots are the ones murdering and destroying? Will we call it
“security”?
We are not there yet. We do not yet have fully autonomous,
roboticized death machines. We only have the human controlled kinds,
like drones and
robot patrols.
But, the world is fast moving toward a future of even more automated
machinery. We show no signs of slowing, we show no signs of thinking
twice about our choices.
Look fun?
I don’t want to live in a future where robots can destroy us without
hesitation and without oversight. I don’t even like the present where
robots kill us because humans told them to. I hope Christof Heyns is
successful in his bid to outlaw autonomous killing machines.
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