ATTENTION ALL DTOIDERS!!! We must rise up together to save our beloved robot master. A new (well, relatively new) company has decided that enough is enough, and has started to produce weapons, monitoring devices, and anti-robot viruses. All in the name of "protecting" humanity against the eventual uprising of AI systems that we all know is coming one day, thanks to fiction and retarded scientists that think it's a good idea to give robots guns and brains. The company name?

Weapons Against Robots (WAR) Defence Company.



The company is located in the UK, so you Brits get the first line of robot killing protection. The company was founded by a dotcom millionare, a Mr. Ben Way. As reported in the telegraph, Mr. Way sees money to be made from "protecting us from the threats of a Robotic(sic) future".



From the article:

"Apparently, Way likes robots but doesn't want them to take over our lives.

He thinks it is "critical that we begin talking now about the long-term ethical implications the robot revolution will surely bring".

He continues: "The use of robotics in the military is on the up and, although the decision to take human life is currently still taken by another human, before long such decisions will be made up complex mathematical and logical rules programmed within a robot."

"Potentially the consequences of a computer crashing could be devastating. Hence, robotic defence is not just necessary for tackling combatants, but potentially for making sure we have control over our own weaponry."

And apparently, he's on to something. Professor of Artificial Intelligence Noel Sharkey from Sheffield University agrees with what Mr. Way is doing, and even goes on to say:

"This is the first real response that I have seen to the predicted rise in the use of autonomous military robots and it testifies to the dangerous slippery slope that we seem to be inevitably sliding down."


"Ben Way has certainly picked up on the magnitude of the impending threat or autonomous robot weapons to humanitarian war but it seems even more worrying that such steps are having to be taken."

"The Weapons Against Robots proposal for anti-robot products [sic] and sends out warning signals about the pending anti-humanitarian threat of the proliferation of autonomous lethal military robots. I really hope that it does not come down to the use of these devices."



Now, as intimidating as huge forces of robots attacking the populace and decimating the human race, what will happen to our robot? Will he become a fugitive from the long arm of the anti-robot attack force? Will we be made to hide him in our houses like a digital Anne Frank? Only time and fortunetellers know right now, but I hope not. Unless he wants to come hang out at my house, in which I'm totally cool with that.

Originally found on geekologie

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