The Future of Drone Attacks: Automated Killing Video Lecture | Shaping the Future: The New Western World - Personal Skills

you know the question is what year is
going to be the first person killed by a
robotic drone that acted on its own
authority now we had people killed by
accident there was a robotic
anti-aircraft drone or system as a
ground-based system in South Africa back
in the 90s and they're all the pooh-bahs
there to watch the demo and thing goes
nuts it goes wrong takes out all the
VIPs you know and the first person
killed by drone was way back in 2002 but
you know it's it's there are two kinds
of indicators that thinks I look you go
that's weird I better pay attention to
it the other one is okay what's the one
I'm looking for
that means something's coming to pass so
the first person killed by autonomous
robot without the robot asking a human
for permission first that will be a
watershed man I think it's coming fast
so you could imagine loading algorithms
into drones that say you know when these
conditions are met don't phone back
because there isn't time just go fire
the heat seeker and that's the drone
that's the algorithm that will cause the
trouble because it will miss trigger and
that's where it gets into interface the
the key part about something like that
whether swall street or you know robots
with guns is robots with the the
challenge is properly defined in the
boundary conditions of authority and if
you look back and go all the way back to
the 87 market crash
the first crashing was caused by program
trading those were algorithms running
outside of their boundary this I mean
this is if you if for some reasons such
as speed or urgency you take the
decision element out because you need to
make decisions faster whether it's
trading in milliseconds or a drone sees
somebody and hasn't got time to go wake
the president ask me
so okay it's been programmed to do the
right thing well sooner or later it'll
do the wrong
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