Self-driving car rampage...

[deanwebb]

True, dat.

It would save lives if people would jump over cars more often.

Maybe we could all get exoskeletons that, if they detect an oncoming car, launch the user 30 feet into the air, so he can clear the oncoming vehicle. But, then, people would complain about hitting tunnels and overpasses and lightposts and trees and stuff like that.

[deanwebb]

http://thebulletin.org/struggle-ban-killer-robots7150

More on the question of how much autonomy to grant to systems, weapons in this case.

Which made me think about either hacks or, more likely, software problems on semi-autonomous weapon systems. I imagined an airstrip with a range of drones on it when, suddenly, one of them has a glitch that results in an immediate activation of the drone at a fully autonomous level, along with activation of its routines to hunt for targets. Mayhem ensues.