Is This a Good Idea? Killer Robots?

July 01, 2009

    Should autonomous robots —that is,  robots who can perform tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance--be armed with lethal weapons and allowed to decide for themselves whether to kill humans?

Is This a Good Idea? A Flying Saucer?

May 20, 2009

Cue up the spooky theremin music. 

What if we actually had a disc-shaped vehicle that could take off and land vertically,
hover, and fly without burning a drop of jet fuel, just like the alien spacecraft in The Day The Earth Stood Still?   (I’m talking about the 1951 version, not the recent Keanu Reeves remake.)

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