{"id":56867,"date":"2017-04-26T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/how-should-we-treat-our-military-robots"},"modified":"2017-04-26T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:27:44","slug":"how-should-we-treat-our-military-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/how-should-we-treat-our-military-robots","title":{"rendered":"How Should We Treat Our Military Robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVlhMGQgDkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The audience of venture capitalists<\/strong>, engineers and other tech-sector denizens chuckled as they watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E0Rc9CzVRuQ?t=1m4s\">video clip<\/a> of an engineer using a hockey stick to shove a box away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostondynamics.com\/robot_Atlas.html\">Atlas robot<\/a> that was trying to pick it up. Each time the humanoid robot lumbered forward, its objective moved out of reach. From my vantage point at the back of the room, the audience\u2019s reaction to the situation began to sound uneasy, as if the engineer\u2019s actions and their invention\u2019s response had crossed some imaginary line.<\/p>\n<p>If these tech mavens aren\u2019t sure how to respond to increasingly life-like robots and artificial intelligence systems, I wondered, what are we in the defense community missing?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/04\/how-should-we-treat-our-military-robots\/137335\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer1e3c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2017\/04\/how-should-we-treat-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly human-like automated weapons demand an honest accounting of our emotional responses to them. The audience of venture capitalists, engineers and other tech-sector denizens chuckled as they watched a video clip of an engineer using a hockey stick to shove a box away from the Atlas robot that was trying to pick it up. Each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}