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According to the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, the world had been unfortunately slow at protecting humans from technology. There are many countries and representatives that do not understand what is going on. Autonomous weapons are ones that can operate and attack s without any human intervention. Around 1,000 science and technology chiefs, including Stephen Hawking, said that the development of weapons with autonomous decision would be possible within a few years. A ban on offensive autonomous came into play warning that the world risked sliding into artificial intelligence. Stuart Russel, professor of computer science at Berkeley in California stated that he is against robots for ethical reasons, but also ethical arguments would not necessarily win the day. It is also said that autonomous intelligence means that humans are deprived from moral responsibility. Humanity will me taken to a whole different level once technology has advanced to the point of machine perception.
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Automatons are slowly taking control of a lot of peoples' minds. Most people believe that artificial intelligence is the right way to go. I think that technology is very controlling because it is there to give us answers to pretty much any question or curiosity we have. It is basically a much faster and advanced version of a human brain. Perhaps we are so connected with technology because it is based off of our own intellect. If we continue to encourage the progress of technology, I agree that things could get way too out of hand. Especially if we keep developing specifically in the robotics area. I think that during the Spanish-American war, if automatons existed, or even the idea of them existed, things might have gone a little differently. Americans might not have had the victory so easy, and things would be a lot different today. The world might be a place where uncontrollable violence swarmed and perhaps the human race might not exist anymore either.
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Terminator-Type Robots Would Be a Mistake
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This is very scary to think about, because even Stephen Hawking said that robots could take over the world. I think it is better if humans can think and do things for themselves. Did we learn nothing from I Robot or even Wall-E??
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Matthew Homsher 9th- The growth in technology is a good thing, but with every new technology there are some precautions you need to take. It's no different here. If you fail to plan you plan to fail. I just hope that we've planned ahead.
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