>Why do we have to work on better ways to kill each other? When will that end? Is that the only motivation we have?
This technology in and of itself need not be inherently evil, any more than (as I mentioned in another thread) the Jeep, or rocketry, or radar or the computer or any number of technologies initially developed for military applications.
This is in essence just another way to get a machine from point A to point B. It has legs instead of wheels. I would disagree that they add no value, if one separates the engineering from the one possible application out of many. If the military wants a fully autonomous killing machine once they figure out the "fully autonomous" part (which has, really, more to do with software than hardware) then the hardware part of it - whether it has two legs, or four, or wheels or treads or flies, isn't really going to matter.
This technology in and of itself need not be inherently evil, any more than (as I mentioned in another thread) the Jeep, or rocketry, or radar or the computer or any number of technologies initially developed for military applications.
This is in essence just another way to get a machine from point A to point B. It has legs instead of wheels. I would disagree that they add no value, if one separates the engineering from the one possible application out of many. If the military wants a fully autonomous killing machine once they figure out the "fully autonomous" part (which has, really, more to do with software than hardware) then the hardware part of it - whether it has two legs, or four, or wheels or treads or flies, isn't really going to matter.