With drones now to be introduced in America and Australia….the question must be asked:

…are your kids next?

“I’ve been very interested in all aspects of what is now branded as the Long War, which I see as a war between Finance and Humans, rather than East versus West, Capitalism versus Islam, or whatever.

A military invasion to secure resources and a financial austerity package to placate bondholders are all part of a unified process. It’s just that force is applied in a somewhat cruder manner in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Africa.

What I’ve done is transposed the action to the Homeland, where it will eventually arrive anyway. The Drones are Chamber of Commerce assets, part of the elite Milton Friedman Unit.”

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In a recent survey on people’s attitudes regarding autonomous robots capable of lethal force , the inclusion of the moral emotion of guilt was recommended by almost half of the respondents when considering a robot capable of lethal force, with only compassion occurring at a higher level. Our research group has extensive experience in
the design of autonomous agents possessing artificial affective functions...

The Ethical Adaptor operates at two primary levels:
1. After-action reflection, where reflective consideration
and critiquing of the performance of the lethal robotic
system, triggered either by a human specialized in
such assessments or by the system’s post-mission
cumulative internal affective state (e.g., guilt or
remorse), provides guidance to the architecture to
modify its representations and parameters. This
allows the system to alter its ethical basis in a manner
consistent with promoting proper action in the future.

2. Run-time affective restriction of lethal behavior,
which occurs during the ongoing conduct of a
mission. In this case, if specific affective threshold
values (e.g., guilt) are exceeded, the system will cease
being able to deploy lethality partially or in totality.

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