Monday, October 20, 2014

Should we ban killer robots ?

Autonomous Weapon Bans

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist
Since the beginning of mankind human beings have always been the superior species. Humans have worked on technology for decades- making improvements day after another to better the quality of life. What we fail to realize is the power these things have over us. I believe that we should ban the use of autonomous weapons and the reasons are stated below. 
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Issues related to Autonomous Weapons. 


First off all autonomous weapons/ killer robots means that these drones are programmed to work in such a way that they do not need control of a human being. I believe that this idea is bizarre because human beings are gifted with unique features one of which is to have a conscience- Robots unfortunately are not capable of thinking or sympathizing. If we were to have programmed robots set loose on a battlefield- its going to be a massacre, innocent civilians might also be injured or worse dead because these killer robots are unable to think and realize that they are not the target. Death or life decisions should be left to human beings and not drones because humans we can analyze and assess situation and accordingly make decisions. 
Another problem associated with this is that technologically advanced countries like China, Russia, United Kingdom and United States would rise to be superpowers- which is frankly unfair to the other countries all because they are not capable of developing their own autonomous weapons. These superpowers will the then govern the world and have a larger say in worldwide decisions. Also if by chance there is some kind of conflict between these super powers- these countries will go to war and with how highly advanced their technology is- it will be a gruesome and bloody battle in which the victims will mostly be the people of the countries who are unable to fend for themselves. 

My idea of a Solution


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According to me- these weapons should be banned worldwide. However I would like to see development in this field for future emergency cases. There should be a few countries working together on these autonomous weapons  with a governing non biased organization monitoring their actions and developments- this should be done strictly for research purposes and should never be used as weapons for war. The governing body should come up with a set of rules which legally bind participating countries from performing any kind of harmful activities to the general.


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