{"id":137,"date":"2007-04-17T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/wp\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-04-17T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T23:35:32","slug":"ethics-for-kill-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/ethics-for-kill-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics for Kill-Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/ndia\/2006disruptive_tech\/canning.pdf\">proposes<\/a> (<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">PDF<\/span>) that &#8220;machines target other machines and men target men&#8221; be incorporated into the Law of Armed Conflict (<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">LOAC<\/span>).  Some wags at <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/04\/14\/1718241&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a> are likening this suggestion to <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Asimov&#8217;s<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Laws_of_Robotics\">three laws of robotics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My take? Like all conventions, it is only as good as its being implementable, and expedience usually chases out good intent, and law. There are serious incentives to defect from such a treaty, due to the potential killing capacity of autonomous and guided machinery. Such rules of engagement for robots is, nonetheless, something we need to consider and try to apply.<\/p>\n<p>What could a technologically outclassed enemy do in the presence of kill-bots, and other overwhelming force?  What they all ready are doing: terrorism.  Often, there are low-tech workarounds for high-tech problems (e.g. the US develops expensive, sophisticated spy satellites, so the the enemy tarps encampments with innocuous images;  the military creates a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">raygun<\/span> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-ray-gun,0,3333500.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines\">that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire<\/a>&#8220;, so protesters may wear a portable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faraday_cage\">Faraday cage<\/a> a.k.a. aluminum jumpsuit).  Worse, as fallible as AI is, there are some nasty ways to game it, such as projecting images of weapons on innocents and other targets.<\/p>\n<p>Kill-bots and terrorists&#8211; it is a bleak vision<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, proposes (PDF) that &#8220;machines target other machines and men target men&#8221; be incorporated into the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). Some wags at Slashdot are likening this suggestion to Asimov&#8217;s three laws of robotics. My take? Like all conventions, it is only as good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-2d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}