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Radio Viseu Cidade Viriato

sexta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2008

The robot apocalypse looms ever larger

Phrases that give us pause:

"What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed."

and

"Once the bits are joined, there will be a robot force under command of a single soldier with potentially dire consequences for innocents around the corner."

Sounds bad enough. But when those are actual descriptions of the Pentagon's newest military destructobot program - they're actively seeking contractors to 'develop a software and sensor package to enable a team of robots to search for and detect human presence in an indoor environment' - you pretty much know that it's time to abandon civilisation, and head for the mountains, where we will live in caves surrounded by elaborate booby-trap mechanisms to fend off the roaming packs of killer hound-droids.

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