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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Today is turning out to be very robotic!
I hope you are talking about the fortune tellers that are like the one in the movie Big. That one was right.
Coming soon...
I want a cybernetic Pam Grier, nice rack and all, teaching my kids in school in the future that's plagued with constant teenage angst.
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gasses
And we poisoned their asses
"3 billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, Ben Way, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1984, before Ben was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at Ben himself when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for Ben. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first. "
We need to destroy the internet, lest they gain control of it.
I want robo jebus
Someone hide Niero.
Does not compute!
delete this blasphemous blog post.
you have 20 seconds to comply.
Danger Will Robinson!
These guys are clearly ignoring the more pressing threat facing our society. Where's the Zombie Defense force? That would be a far better use of resources, and wouldn't involve disarming our beloved icon. (Unless Niero's been hiding something...)
I agree.
2 much sci fi movies for them