Friday 24 October 2008

AI 122 Being hunted by ai robotic dogs with tasers are coming near you soon!!! Science fiction becoming science faction faster than you expected!


The USA military are building "Multi-Robot Pursuit Systems". In other words, this is a pack of robotic ‘dogs’ that search, find and neutralise targeted humans. These robotic security dogs are likely to be equipped with tasers.

iRobot (refer to AI 6) is already working on this capability as it signed a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on its military robots.

By using taser guns the military and security forms will argue that even if their robotic robotic dogs do neutralise the wrong people because of an ai error of judgment at least no real harm has been done.

This raises major trust, ethical and morale issues (refer to AI 123)