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

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

> 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/
>
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>               -- Lauren Weinstein




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