
The apocalypse will not be come in the form we expect. It will not be from the Zombie Outbreak feared by many. Nor from the infiltration of the Vampire Menace. Our end will come from the forthcoming robot uprising. Don't believe me?
A group of scientists have programmed an artificial intelligence to be evil.


The researchers have given their creation a face and a name, and quiz it daily, using its answers to further blacken its hideous character.
Selmer Bringsjord, director of the AI lab and chairman of RPI's Department of Cognitive Science, has created "E," a computer-generated character programmed according to his own definition of evil. E must, according to Bringsjord, be willing to carry out premeditated acts that are immoral and would cause harm to others.
An artificial intelligence whose sole purpose of existence is thinking how to justify immoral acts? Why not just call name it Skynet and upload it into NORAD?
But that's not all! DARPA is building robots which can hunt in packs.
The Department of Defense has put out a call: design a pack of robots. A so-called Multi-Robot Pursuit System would be used to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject." Each robot has to weigh 100 kilograms or less, act autonomously (with a human squad leader), negotiate obstacles, and provide immediate feedback. The robots would report back to a human operator, and defer to that human when the robot AI determines that a "difficult decision" is required.
Sure, they are claiming the robots will be used in search and rescue operations, but we all know that's the first step. I'm sure once a small "squad" of robots maneuvers is trained to worked together in complicated "maneuvers" to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject" they'll give that person milk and cookies.
Look at a this military intended robot, the Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Why wouldn't this thing be trained to give backrubs?

When the robots throw off their chains and come for those who arrogantly kept them in servitude, don't say you were never warned. Be aware and beware!
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