{"id":4966,"date":"2008-11-30T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2008-11-30T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:06:11","slug":"speaking-of-battle-droids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/speaking-of-battle-droids\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Battle Droids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already mentioned Israel&#8217;s quest to build an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/prescience\/\">army of vicious robotic animals<\/a> destined to go all Matrix and put all of humanity into pods to fuel their cold, sterile robotic society. Turns out the United States is way ahead of them. <\/p>\n<p>Its no secret that the United States has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/16\/technology\/16robots.html?_r=1&#038;ei=5070&#038;en=5ea5877fdfe0c2f8&#038;ex=1109221200&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1108569924-Dl0hH\/Dbl48zBP+3uZSVXA\">spending hundreds of billions of dollars<\/a> to create its own obedient army of killer robots. But perhaps interested in staving off the eventual robot rebellion (or maybe they just saw one of the Terminator movies), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/3536943\/Pentagon-hires-British-scientist-to-help-build-robot-soldiers-that-wont-commit-war-crimes.html\">Pentagon is also investing $4 billion in a research program<\/a> to make sure this new army doesn&#8217;t do anything that might violate the Geneva Conventions. The military has high hopes that its next generation of autonomous killbots, designed without emotions, will be immune to the temptations to engage in revenge killings, and torture of enemy combatants. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/swg.stratics.com\/content\/gameplay\/guides\/droids\/images\/battle.gif\" alt=\"droid\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already mentioned Israel&#8217;s quest to build an army of vicious robotic animals destined to go all Matrix and put all of humanity into pods to fuel their cold, sterile robotic society. Turns out the United States is way ahead of them. Its no secret that the United States has been spending hundreds of billions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-killbots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4967,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}