[ExI] US to Build Robot Army to Counter China's Growing Power

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Henry Rivera via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] US to Build Robot Army to Counter China's Growing Power

>... there appears to be a strong philosophy among DOD and developers still that killing should only be done directly by humans. As one person told me, “so the horror lives on someone’s soul—so that war becomes the real enemy.”

-Henry





Henry, is there any gray area?  Such as: can a robot drone fire if fired upon?  What if a flying robot drone detects another flying robot drone and is fired upon?  Is it allowed to fire in "self" defense?

This is a question in need of an answer quickly, for we may be seeing robot^2 battles in the skies over Ukraine in the immediately foreseeable.

spike