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Robots vs. People in war is wrong

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There has been some news hype news.com.au and network world recently about first-world nations developing semi-automated and fully-automated weapon platforms. (Think Ending of Terminator 3.) And it does seem a little unfair that a computer system specifically designed to detect people and efficiently kill them would be used in modern warfare.

An interesting and ironic point was raised by Prof. Noel Sharkey on a News.com.au article.
“The use of such devices by terrorists should be a serious concern.”
But it would be alright for us to use the machines against (and I use the term loosely) ‘Terrorists’?

Machines for bomb disposal, for retrieving soldiers from combat, even recognisance. Yah, no problem there. If you want to have a completely robotic war where each side does not use living people then fine. But the idea of putting motion detecting, precision shooting, un-emotional machines against regular people is strait out wrong.

I do realise that war is about one group of people doing to another group of people whatever you can; before they can do it to you.

The Geneva convention should be updated to prevent any semi or fully automated killing machine from being permitted in warfare, similar to the banning of bio-weapons. If some groups of people still feel the need in this day and age to wound and kill each other, then let ‘people’ do the wounding and killing. It is far less efficient.