Ethics-bot?: USAFFrom Popsci.com:
As unmanned drones become a larger part of how America makes war, fully autonomous fighting robots seem less a possibility than an eventuality. But how do we ensure that these future autonomous weapons conform to the ethics we would expect from a human combatant?
To prevent a robot from ever taking the field without the same code of conduct flesh and blood soldiers follow, Ron Arkin, a robotics engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has begun writing computer programs that could help robots follow an ethical code in the heat of battle. And although his military-funded project is not designed to produce ethics software for actual future robots, it has generated interesting results nonetheless.
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My Comment: Ethics software .... now I have heard everything.