I am not amused.
wnyc:
New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.
Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman
LEGGO? No! Drone! —A.P.
As much of a technophile as I am, the idea of this type of dangerous machinery making it’s own decisions is extraordinarily disturbing to me.
“The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son.”
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
