I’m a sucker for military robot stories. Today, The Independent has an article about concerns from the University of Sheffield’s Professor Sharkey that, as robots are used in more and more ways, people will become more and more isolated from each other.
Professor Sharkey also calls for ethical guidelines for battlefield robots, and the article cites the US Future Combat Systems project that would allow, according to the article, “a single soldier initiating large-scale ground and aerial attacks by a robot droid army.”
