Boston Dynamics and five other tech firms pledge not to weaponize their robots

Had to check for weasel words. (Not that it matters because companies can always change things.) Didn’t take long to spot the loophole:

>The firms pledged not to weaponize their "advanced-mobility general-purpose robots"

So, this only applies to general-purpose robots. Not to mention that they are just saying they won’t do the weaponization themselves (let third parties and customers do it)… unless it’s a specific-purpose robot, then they are free to do it themselves.

Really, who falls for this stuff?

Meanwhile in China: https://twitter.com/LiaWongOSINT/status/1577209925255561216

This feels like a very significant, early time. Most of our future with robots is yet to come.

The concern over weaponized robotics is as valid as it is growing in light of very rapid tech advancement.

In our time right now, the line between lower tech many of us call machines and robots is increasingly unclear.

Eg:

When is a drone a robot?

This move may be looked back upon as an early expression of what will become a profound divide among people.

The US and other militaries have been trying out autonomous killer robots for a decade or more. Some types of missiles, once launched, are completely autonomous and will choose a target. Do a search on "loyal wingman", these are unmanned drones that fly alongside a jet fighter and can be tasked to do things, in some cases autonomously. Anybody can buy a Boston Dynamics robot and retrofit it with weapons. It's good they are making a statement, but a lot more is needed if we really want to stop autonomous weaponized robots because they are already here.

Albeit that would be the way to end all wars. As humans cannot fight against superior robots. So all wars will become drone wars. And eventually all parties realize why waste time to build real robots, we can do it in CS:GO.