From: The Blaze
When President Barack Obama played soccer with Asimo — Honda’s humaniod robot — last month, even he had to admit walking and talking robots are “a little scary.”
Perhaps the
Commander in Chief should hear about his Defense Department’s plan to
develop robots that decide what is right and what is wrong.
Secretary
of Defense Chuck Hagel met one of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency’s robots in April, and now the DoD will spend $7.5 in
the next five years to build robots with a preprogrammed moral code
(Image source: Associated Press).
The Office
of Naval Research has $7.5 million set aside in grant money over the
next five years for university researchers to build a robot with moral
reasoning capabilities.
Proponents
of the plan argue a “sense of moral consequence” could allow robotic
systems to operate as one part of a more efficient — and truly
autonomous — defense infrastructure. And some of those advocates think
pre-programmed machines would make better decisions than humans, since
they could only follow strict rules of engagement and calculate
potential outcomes for multiple different scenarios.
And that does make sense to some, according to Gizmodo. “With drones, missile defines, autonomous vehicles, etc., the military is rapidly creating systems that will need to make moral decisions,” AI researcher Steven Omohundro told Defense One.
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