Didn’t we already see how bad of an idea it was to put machine guns in the hands of robots? Didn’t the Terminator series already warn us of the consequences.
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Skynet: US military testing robots with machine guns
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Published October 12, 2013
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A robot, equipped with an M240 machine gun, moves through the darkness until it stops under a stand of trees 100 yards from its squad of U.S. troops. The robot uses thermal imaging to detect enemy combatants hiding up ahead and aims its gun at them.
With a single command from its human controller, who is with the squad 100 yards back, the robot opens fire and takes out the enemy, saving the troops from a potentially deadly attack.
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