Sunday, February 14, 2016


I see A.I.’s as the more advanced solider, doctor, engineer, piolet, and astronaut. But to be honest I think A.I’s could take over every job due to how smart they will be. I would like hospitals to use A.I.’s as surgeons because in my opinion a robot would have more steady hands then a human. But once they replace human soldiers it would be good and bad at the same time. It would be good because men would not have to die at an early age. Unfortunately, A.Is replacing human soldiers would be violating Martens Clause which was added in 1977 to “ban weapons that violate the principles of humanity and the dictates of public conscience” (417, Berkeley Professor). Soldier robots would be equipped with weapons of mass destruction which is what the Clause is supposed to protect us from and would give the A.Is the possibility to overthrow humans. Also a robot may not be able to differentiate between regular human activity and hostile activity. The only way robots could be soldiers without violating Martens Clause would be to equip them with normal weapons and have meaningful human control. Meaningful human control is having a person watch the actions of an A.I. behind a screen and by using command buttons the person watching can either stop or give the A.I. authority to kill a human. An article on the guardian talks about how the UN is debating about their autonomous weapons. They are deciding if they should ban autonomous weapons or not because of how dangerous they can be. If the world is not comfortable with just robots controlling weapons for example a turret then how could we possibly be ready for A.Is replacing soldiers.

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