Activists from all over the world have launched a campaign called "Stop the killer robots." Machines with artificial intelligence can establish their own order on the planet and destroy everyone who gets in their way.
The creators of the project are afraid of this. Their main fear: the repetition of the events set out in the cult "Terminator". According to Sky News, the organizers are seriously worried by the fact that, according to some estimates, in 20-30 years the armies will be entirely composed of smart robots.
Their developers assure that new technologies will allow waging wars without blood and will significantly reduce the number of human casualties. However, activists are suspicious of this, suggesting that the cars will spiral out of control.
“I don’t want to be destroyed by a programmed machine,” said Jody Williams, founder of the International Antipersonnel Mine Ban Movement.
For her work in 1997 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wilms is convinced that the production of "death machines" violates the basic principles of humanity and human rights. Opponents of robots hope they will be completely banned, along with cluster bombs and anti-personnel mines.
It should be noted that so far no country has reported the invention of a technology that can operate without any commands from a person. Although such developments, one of the results of which are, for example, drones, are being carried out in many states, including Russia. The first prerequisites for the fact that combat vehicles will have human qualities already exist.
So, scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a program that will allow robots to trick each other.
"Similar tactics can be used for robots guarding military depots or ammunition on the battlefield," said the experts. "This will help them deceive the enemy and buy time before reinforcements arrive."
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A team of engineers from Switzerland has created a robot salamander that can run, jump and fly like its living counterpart.
"Amphibian" was equipped with a kind of spinal cord. Earlier, experts have already expressed concerns about mechanical armies, which may appear in a few decades.
Harvard Law School and Human Rights Watch published a voluminous report titled “The Loss of Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots” in late 2012. Scientists at the Center for Potential Threats Research in Cambridge also suggested that the uprising of the machines could lead to the death of humanity.