I agree with you, Thenoob.The use of drones to inspect conditions of food crops, traffic control, and other mundane tasks currently performed by humans with varying degree of skills at those tasks is perfectly acceptable and useful. Sadly, Isaac Asimov’s “rules of robotics” do not apply when humans with their own “ends justify means” attitudes are the programmers/operators. If a gun is used to kill innocent civilians in a mall, it is too often the gun, not the one pulling the trigger who is judged at fault. I do support stronger controls on who gets gun, but I support even stronger controls on who gets to control an armed drone.Robots can be very cool. It’s the humans who program/operate them that make them dangerous.Thank you for an insightful comment.Sincerely,C.
I agree with you, Thenoob.The use of drones to inspect conditions of food crops, traffic control, and other mundane tasks currently performed by humans with varying degree of skills at those tasks is perfectly acceptable and useful. Sadly, Isaac Asimov’s “rules of robotics” do not apply when humans with their own “ends justify means” attitudes are the programmers/operators. If a gun is used to kill innocent civilians in a mall, it is too often the gun, not the one pulling the trigger who is judged at fault. I do support stronger controls on who gets gun, but I support even stronger controls on who gets to control an armed drone.Robots can be very cool. It’s the humans who program/operate them that make them dangerous.Thank you for an insightful comment.Sincerely,C.