'Machines with the power and discretion to take human lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant, and should be prohibited by international law.'
, quoting Leonard Sullivan, a high-ranking Pentagon official who visited Vietnam in 1968:"Just as it is almost impossible to be an agnostic in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, so it is difficult to keep from being swept up in the beauty and majesty of the Task Force Alpha temple."Most aspects of that Vietnam-era"automated" battlefield actually required human intervention.
"On the battlefield of the future enemy forces will be located, tracked, and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data links, computer-assisted intelligence evaluation, and automated fire control. With first round kill probabilities approaching certainty, and with surveillance devices that can continually track the enemy, the need for large forces to fix the opposition will be less important.
What Westmoreland meant by"fix the opposition" was kill the enemy. Another military euphemism in the twenty-first century is"engage." In either case, the meaning is the same: the role of lethal autonomous weapons systems is to automatically find and kill human beings, without human intervention.Every autumn, the British Broadcasting Corporation sponsors a series of four lectures given by an expert in some important field of study.
Russell's point, however, was that a weapons system doesn't need self-awareness to act autonomously or to present a threat to innocent human beings. What it does need is:The ability to"engage," i.e. kill The reality is that such systems already exist. Indeed, a government-owned weapons company in Turkey recently advertised its Kargu drone—a quadcopter"the size of a dinner plate," as Russell described it, which can carry a kilogram of explosives and is capable of making"anti-personnel autonomous hits" with"targets selected on images and face recognition.
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