Killer Robots Are Almost Inevitable Says General

"A machine doesn’t blink, doesn’t get hot, 

doesn’t get cold and just follows the rules".

General Sir Richard Barrons

(Independent)  -  The use of killer robots in global conflicts is “bound to come”, a former British defence chief has said.

Retired general, Sir Richard Barrons told The Telegraph that any pre-emptive ban is unlikely to be successful because autonomous weapons would be cheaper, more effective and could keep humans out of harms way.

“A machine doesn’t blink, doesn’t get hot, doesn’t get cold and just follows the rules,” he said. “Why would you send a 19-year-old with a rifle into a house first to see if anything is in there if you could send a machine? And there are many, many, many examples in the land and maritime environments.”

Last week, more than 100 technology experts wrote a letter to the United Nations urging it to ban autonomous weapons.

Among the 116 signatories were Mustafa Suleyman, head of Applied Artificial Intelligence at Google DeepMind,  and Tesla founder Elon Musk.

“Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare,” the letter read. “Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at time scales faster than humans can comprehend.

“These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways. We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.”

General Barrons was the chief of the UK’s Joint Forces Command until last year.

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