The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2007
Some more under-the-radar than others. Anyone reading tech blogs will have seen the fuss made about armed robots (the story on which we link to here), for example. Saying that they raise “ethical and technological issues about the future of intelligent machines in war” seems early, though; they’re remote-controlled weapons rather than robots. Putting something on a battlefield that acts on sensory input and makes decisions about where to aim and when to pull the trigger is a qualitatively different idea.
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