The Terminator Arrives Earlier than Expected

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In summary, the Turkish government is building automatic shooting gun towers at the Syrian border. These towers can shoot at any targets that are detected and can engage and destroy targets automatically. This is a very alarming development and is something that I never expected to see in my lifetime. There is no chance of blocking this technology globally, and it is the combination of automation and killing that is so alarming.
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http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/tu...-shooting-gun-towers-at-syrian-border-2473487

That news is horrifying. I hope it's not true.

I never doubted that killing machines would arrive some day. Think of the Terminator movies. But I expected that it would not be in my lifetime. I was wrong. If that news article is true, they go into operation soon.

How long after this until the USA provides solar-powered autonomous drones with a photo database of the faces of all people on the POTUS kill list and sets them loose on the world?

Liberals promised that we would hold global debates over the ethics of such things before they were actually deployed. Wrong again.

Since the technology needed to do it is so commonplace, 200+ countries in the world can unilaterally decide to do it. Criminal sponsored terminators won't be far behind.

Is there any chance of blocking these things globally?
 
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russ_watters said:
How is this fundamentally different from

Turkey's guns target civilians. Innocent civilians in the opinion of many.

Tomahawk targets are programmed in by people. They do not decide autonomously to select targets and launch themselves.
 
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They are called sentry guns, korea and israel had them for a long time now.
 
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anorlunda said:
Turkey's guns target civilians. Innocent civilians in the opinion of many. ...
There's no such "civilian" indication in your link. If this system is truly autonomous, it's going to track anything of reasonable size that moves, to include people and goats, very much like the effect of a minefield, without the risk of leaving unremoved mines years later.
 
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anorlunda said:
On second thought, I guess that land mines are non-intelligent low-tech precedent.
Or Claymores
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M18_Claymore_mine

But a recent thread https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/destined-to-build-a-super-ai-that-will-destroy-us.887729/ agonized over similar threats. It is the combination of automation and killing that is so alarming.
A time bomb is automated and lethal. They even occasionally turn on their more careless makers, like the fiction bots. If there's alarm, must come from some other feature or intention.
 
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Oh well, I guess I overreacted because of revulsion.
 

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