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THE use of drones to kill suspected terrorists is controversial, but so long as a human being decides whether to fire the missile, it is not a radical shift in how humanity wages war. Since the first archer fired the first arrow, warriors have been inventing ways to strike their enemies while removing themselves from harm's way.

Soon, however, military robots will be able to pick out human targets on the battlefield and decide on their own whether to go for the kill. A US Air Force report predicted two years ago that ''by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems''. [b]A 2011 US Defence Department road map for ground-based weapons states: ''There is an ongoing push to increase autonomy, with a current goal of 'supervised autonomy', but with an ultimate goal of full autonomy.''[/b]

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/terminator-war-scenario-no-longer-a-joke-20121124-29zz2.html
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Original Message THE use of drones to kill suspected terrorists is controversial, but so long as a human being decides whether to fire the missile, it is not a radical shift in how humanity wages war. Since the first archer fired the first arrow, warriors have been inventing ways to strike their enemies while removing themselves from harm's way.

Soon, however, military robots will be able to pick out human targets on the battlefield and decide on their own whether to go for the kill. A US Air Force report predicted two years ago that ''by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems''. A 2011 US Defence Department road map for ground-based weapons states: ''There is an ongoing push to increase autonomy, with a current goal of 'supervised autonomy', but with an ultimate goal of full autonomy.''

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