An officer working on Future Combat Systems comes out against robotic soldiers: Although we have made extraordinary advances in technology over the years, it is unlikely that any robotic or artificial intelligence could ever replicate the ability of a trained fighting man in combat.
This reminds me of those quotes about heavier-than-air flight and 640 KB of random access memory. But can you imagine the outcry when a team of robotic police respond to a swatting prank? Who decides: Man or machine? |