{"id":524448,"date":"2022-12-10T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bring-on-the-killer-robots-we-need-em-more-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T02:06:00","slug":"bring-on-the-killer-robots-we-need-em-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bring-on-the-killer-robots-we-need-em-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bring on the killer robots! We need &#8217;em more than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a264ae4a6862\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a264ae4a6862\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bring-on-the-killer-robots-we-need-em-more-than-ever\/#%E2%80%9CBring_on_the_killer_robots_We_need_em_more_than_ever%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Bring on the killer robots! We need &#8217;em more than ever&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBring_on_the_killer_robots_We_need_em_more_than_ever%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Bring on the killer robots! We need &#8217;em more than ever&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, Cyberdyne Systems Corporation created an Artificial Intelligence-based defense system called Skynet. When the system achieved self-awareness on Aug. 29, 1997, it decided that humanity was the enemy and precipitated a devastating nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s pretty much why the San Francisco board of supervisors reversed an initial decision to allow its police force to deploy killer robots in extreme situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Skynet, the arch-villain of the \u201cTerminator\u201d franchise, isn\u2019t real. Yet when the topic is robots very few people care.<\/p>\n<p>There is indeed a large and entertaining body of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> about creepy and dangerous robots, from \u201cMetropolis\u201d to \u201cEx Machina,\u201d from \u201cThe Day the Earth Stood Still\u201d to \u201cI, Robot,\u201d but the keyword in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction is \u201cfiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking cues from these films about how we should use robots is a little like trying to learn how to handle criminal gangs from \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-433.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"These movies have spawned a lot of fear into civilians.\" class=\"wp-image-24965311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-433.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-433.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-433.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>There are a variety of dangerous robots that kill humans in films, such as this one from 1927\u2019s \u201cMetropolis.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Everett Collection \/ Everett Col<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The initial vote in San Francisco and its rapid reversal \u2014 plus, the rollout of an AI bot that can write reasonably well \u2014 has brought more handwringing about the potential threats of our technological future.<\/p>\n<p>The risk is that we\u2019ll take outlandish dystopian scenarios seriously and allow a poorly informed Luddism, combined with the special pleading of potentially threatened incumbent industries, to crimp technological advance.<\/p>\n<p>Robots have had terrible PR going on a century now with little or no justification. What have they ever done to anyone, besides vacuum the corners of our houses and maybe deliver a pizza? On the basis of the historical record, it is robots who should fear humans. We are guilty of every imaginable crime, sometimes on an unspeakable scale; the Roomba might occasionally startle the dog.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201ckiller robots\u201d is irresistible to people and, of course, has, shall we say, negative connotations. Still, robots are only a tool like any other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-437.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The police already avail themselves of all sort of mechanical implements that assist their efforts to track down suspects.\" class=\"wp-image-24965312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-437.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-437.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-437.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Some say that robots should be utilized like any other police tool. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBC San Francisco<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The police already avail themselves of all sort of mechanical implements that assist their efforts to track down suspects and, if necessary, kill them, from radios to cars to battering rams to\u00a0helicopters to, of course, firearms. If we trust a police officer with, say, a Glock 19 \u2014 a lethal weapon \u2014 there\u2019s no good reason to deny him or her a killer robot during a mass shooting or hostage-taking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always easy to say someone else should put themselves in harm\u2019s way. There will come a day when insisting the police don\u2019t deploy robots will seem like insisting every mission to neutralize a terrorist be flown by a manned mission instead of a drone.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, we don\u2019t ask members of the bomb squad to pick and prod potential bombs themselves, when they can have robots to do it for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-438.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In Dallas in 2016,\u00a0police used a robot mounted with explosives\u00a0to take out a sniper who had shot and killed five officers.\" class=\"wp-image-24965313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-438.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-438.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/lowry-killer-robots-438.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>San Francisco\u2019s new laws have garnered much criticism across the city. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Dallas in 2016,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2016\/07\/12\/us\/dallas-police-robot-c4-explosives\/index.html\">police used a robot mounted with explosives<\/a>\u00a0to take out a sniper who had shot and killed five officers. What would have been more dystopian \u2014 more officers getting shot, or a killer robot getting the job done without exposing anyone else to harm?<\/p>\n<p>The deepest fear about robots and AI is that they will become so sophisticated and advanced they will spiral out of our control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even if this were theoretically possible, we are extremely far away from the time when robots achieve human-like autonomy, or when AI matches our intelligence. Human intelligence is still such a mystery \u2014 and the variety of human interactions that we take for granted so subtle and vast \u2014 that truly replicating anything <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaching it is like trying to send a manned mission to Proxima Centauri b.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that robots, like every other technological advance, destroy jobs. They also create new ones.<\/p>\n<p>With the United States experiencing lackluster productivity growth since 2010, we need the best robots and AI that we can muster. We shouldn\u2019t fear them just because \u2014 decades-old spoiler alert \u2014 HAL turns out to be a dastardly villain in \u201c2001: Space Odyssey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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