If we program killer robots and they end up killing us all, what will they do with themselves once their programming is completed?
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What is Best in Life? – Inks
Making thinking machines is not a bad idea. Making machines whose primary purpose is to think about how to kill humans is a terrible, terrible idea.
What is Best in Life? – Pencils
By the time the robots take over the world all the large carnivores are likely to be extinct. So where did this chap get its furs?
I emailed the finished (inked and colored) version of this illustration to a friend. Just the illustration. No commentary. His response was perfect –
“I don’t think you MEAN for this robot to have skinned a teddy bear, but absent more context, that’s what I’m going with. Because I like it 🙂 “
That works for me.
Killer Robots, Always a Bad Idea – Color
If machines did become self aware and develop a desire to eliminate our species I suspect that they’d stick to using biological or chemical weapons on us. Explosives and projectile weapons are awfully messy and require a lot of clean up.
Killer Robots, Always a Bad Idea – B&W
I’m not worried about machines gaining sentience and then deciding to wipe out humanity. Maybe if machines could think they’d decide that we should be exterminated. Or ruthlessly dominated. Maybe they would have other ideas. We won’t know until it happens.
I’m more worried about programming machines to act as soldiers or as law enforcement. Programming has limitations and those limitations will get innocent people killed. The excuse for the tragedy will be, “We couldn’t have foreseen … “
