Mr. Putin cast the gauntlet down when he said, "Whoever
leads in AI [ artificial intelligence ] will rule the
world."
That was the spark that ignited Elon Musk (head of Space
X and Telsa) to respond by saying that robot soldiers can
actually save lives on the battlefield, but that autonomous
robots must never be built which can reprogram themselves
apart from a human directive. In other words, killer robots
are a loose cannon on the battlefield, and a threat to all
mankind.
Mr. Musk, and many others, believe that an international
agreement, signed by all nations, should commit not to
manufacture autonomous killer robots.
Seems like a good idea to me, but then again, can rivalry
ever be bridled ?
Can signed documents ever be adhered to ?
Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it ?"
Certainly Hitler never respected a piece of paper ( signed
document ).
Mr. Tom Simonite wrote an excellent article called," AI
Could Revolutionize War as Much as Nukes".
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-could-revolutionize-war-as-much-as-nukes
In that article, The Greg Allen report ( Center for New
American Security and IARPA) states that, " technology is a
race in which there will be one winner".
"Safety and ethics will go by the wayside", notes Mr.
Simonite.
DARPA believes that their Atlas Robot can outsmart humans
and thus be an advantage.
The New York Times ran an article entitled
"The Pentagon's 'Terminator Conundrum' : Robots that
could kill on their own"
by Matthew Rosenberg and John Markoff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/pentagon-artificial-intelligence-terminator.html
The article quotes Mr. Robert O. Work, who is Deputy of the
DoD Secretary ( Dept. of Defence).
Mr. Work is pro AI, believing that artificial robots offer
speed and precision. The article further states that
"the result...would be fully independent robots that can
kill, and are cheap, and as readily available to rogue
states and violent extremists as they are to great powers."
The article warns that "the implications of weapons that
could someday operate independently, beyond the control of
their developers."
Wow! Now that' something to envision and consider,
sober-mindedly.
Yet lust for power and advantage always wins out in a fallen
world.
James 4:1-3 says:
"From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they
not hence even of your lusts that war in your members?
Ye lust and have not. Ye kill and desire to have and cannot
obtain. Ye fight and war"
(Gee, and here they have been telling us that
religion is the motive for war. But here it says
that it is caused by greed and ambition for power.)
The article asks the question, 'can a machine be trusted
with lethal force?'
The answer of course is a resounding,
"NO". We cannot afford to be naïve.
Yet human nature being what it is, we will continue to
pursue. ( US, USSR, INDIA and CHINA).
Like Centaurs in Battle and Urban Warfare
Here is what Joel 2:1-11 says about AI killer robots:
"The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and
as horsemen, so shall they run.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall
they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth
the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
"Before their face the people will be much pained. All
faces shall gather blackness.
They shall run like mighty men. They shall climb the wall
like men of war [urban warfare ?]
And they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall
not break their ranks.
Neither shall one thrust another. They shall walk every one
in his path. And when they fall upon the sword, they shall
not be wounded."
They shall run to and fro in the CITY [urban warfare].
They shall run upon the wall. They shall climb up on the
houses. They shall enter in at the windows like a thief."
Praise God that HE too has HIS army, verse 11.
These autonomous robots have no soul, no spirit, no
conscience and above all, no mercy. They are murderous
zombies.
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Thoughts
It is tantalizing to ask the manufacturers of AI robots the
following question:
Do autonomous robots require INTELLIGENT DESIGN to
'create' AI humanoid robots,
or can they just 'evolve' from computers ?????