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While news about self-driving cars becomes commonplace, especially when they crash, the Pentagon continues its own specialized foray into the realm of autonomous technology.  A report from the Defense Science Board summarizes what lies ahead as the military services try to adapt and evolve existing tech such as Tesla’s Model S, Amazon’s robotic distribution centers, credit/debit card transaction monitoring software, and Google’s password authentication systems to warfare. The report’s authors–almost all from inside the military or businesses (and quasi-academic centers like the Applied Physics Laboratory) that depend on it–make a few nods toward public skepticism about lethal autonomous systems (aka “killer robots,” fully autonomous weapons that, once deployed, would be able to select and fire on targets without meaningful human involvement), but note that there are currently no proscriptions against their development.  “Moreover, appropriate use of human judgment over the use of force is required and use must be in accordance with all applicable domestic and international law, in particular, the law of war,” the report states. This should come as no reassurance whatsoever after such recent catastrophes as the destruction of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, by a semi-autonomous Air Force gunship whose equipment and human operators failed at fundamental levels.

The British Standards Institute, which produces technical standards for products in the UK, is succinct on this issue in a new report on the ethical design of robots: “Robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans”

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