Anyone who has encountered a bug should know that software can have emergent behaviors. And when you consider the possible emergent behaviors of armed robots using distributed AI and real-time data...well, the guy who wrote this article is an idiot. They should fire him from the NYT and find somebody who understands the complexity of this topic.
John Markoff's book, *Machines of Loving Grace", is a must read for anyone interested in the future (and who isn't).
quote "..as a species have a propensity to anthropomorphize almost anything we interact with" this. And a part from this, bugs. I mean, bugs are there even if you use nasa best practices for safety-critical software