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Plusieurs institutions américaines financent actuellement des recherches pour la conception de robots militaires de type "Terminator". Une perspective qui inquiète les chercheurs. Dans un rapport commandé par la Marine américaine (US Navy), des experts dans l'éthique militaire ont averti de l'importance de veiller à ce que ces soldats-robots fonctionnent selon un code stricte qui préviendrait les erreurs susceptibles de créer une rébellion des machines commes celle vue dans les films "Terminator". Selon eux, la risque que l'humanité soit anéanti par des robots est réel.
- Pour lire le rapport de l'Office des recherches navales de la US Navy sur les dangers des robots militaires : http://ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf
Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion
Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.
Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."
The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.
Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.
source : The Times
- Pour lire le rapport de l'Office des recherches navales de la US Navy sur les dangers des robots militaires : http://ethics.calpoly.edu/ONR_report.pdf
Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion
Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
The stark warning — which includes discussion of a "Terminator"-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is part of a hefty report funded by and prepared for the U.S. Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research.
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans.
Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
"There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do," Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. "Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when ... programs could be written and understood by a single person."
The reality, Dr. Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program.
Accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field — an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.
source : The Times
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