Re AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a horror movie – GeekWire

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Doug Humphrey <doug () joss com>
> Date: November 20, 2017 at 10:27:05 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a horror movie – GeekWire
>
> "Better to lose a hand than your life" - welcome to your bright shiny future !  
>
> I wonder if humans, as an entity, will realize when the time comes to work on the issues that might cause someone to 
> send these drones, or do we miss that exit entirely? 
>
> We only have two hands....
>
> Doug
>
>
> > On Nov 20, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff () cs hmc edu>
> > > Subject: Re: [IP] AI activists turn concerns about killer robots into a horror movie – GeekWire
> > > Date: November 16, 2017 at 12:44:33 PM EST
> > > To: dave () farber net
> > >
> > > I fear it's already too late to put the genie back in the bottle.
> > >
> > > The thing that has kept nuclear technology limited is that it's really hard to do (see Iran's centrifuges).  Drones 
> > > similar to the ones in the video are available as toys.  The face-recognition software is downloadble.  So all you 
> > > need to do is make the shaped charges; I don't know how hard that is but I'm guessing not very.
> > >
> > > That leaves a bit of guidance software and some integration.
> > >
> > > A couple of tiny bits of good news: finding the target isn't just a matter of launching the drone; the search space 
> > > can be large. And if you see the video's drone coming (and if there's only one) a victim might be able to swat it 
> > > away; better to lose a hand than be killed.
> > >
> > > But it's still one of the scariest things I've seen in a long time.
> > > -- 
> > >   Geoff Kuenning   geoff () cs hmc edu    http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
> > >
> > > An Internet that is not Open represents a potentially grave risk to
> > > freedoms of many sorts -- freedom of speech and other civil liberties,
> > > freedom of commerce, and more -- and that openness is what we must so
> > > diligently work to both preserve and expand.
> > >             -- Lauren Weinstein
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