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Good thing they have that first law that prevents them from doing evil.

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First law: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

(Only applicable to sentient robots, of course)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

But not preventing them from introducing "bugs". I wonder when will we see first robot genocide? In 10 years? 20?

Whenever it happens I am sure it will be fully democratic and completely lawful.

It probably already happened in the 80s (Nicaragua, Honduras or Panama) with a partially automated AC130 gunship.

What part of an AC130 is automated?

The smaller more asymmetric military operations are often used to test prototype weapons. My response about automated genocide is that it most likely already happened. And I can't think of a better testbed than an AC130 gunship for an automatic aiming system, the operators only see thermal blobs anyway. Not like this, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/

This would be trivial to automate https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanista...

Wow, I hadn't heard of that story, truly scary stuff.

This video was linked to in that article, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/video-robo-weap/ hopefully every soldier, programmer, and engineer working on these systems has to watch similar videos so that they know the importance of getting this stuff right.

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