[ExI] Thousands of scientists pledge not to help build killer AI robots

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 9:58 AM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't see why using a smart drone armed with one small bomb   to
> target one specific room in one specific building is less moral than using
> thousands of large dumb bombs to carpet bomb an entire city.

As I understand it, the former being more moral - and thus easier to
justify - is part of the claimed problem.  If the military has these
weapons that are so easy to justify using, they will use them more -
allegedly, so many more times that they will wind up killing more
people than in the relatively few times they can justify bombing an
entire city.

I suspect the numbers do not work out that way, but the objectors
appear to believe they do.