Around 1966 in the school library, I read a short story describing hunter-killer robots that had been placed on Earth, to exterminate all the people.
The short story scared me so much, it took me many years to recover from reading it.
Today’s Chinese Unitree A2 robot dog perfectly matches the hunter-killer robots described in that 1966 story. With its speed of 18 km/hr and range of 20 kilometres, soon to become 40 or 60 kilometres, it would be very hard to escape from.
A robot dog with a gun is a soldier and when operated by an artificial intelligence, smarter than the smartest human, we have Skynet realised.
Initially, we viewed radiation, cigarette smoking and PFAS as totally safe, but compared to a super-intelligence-controlled, fast, armed, lethal, robot dog, they’re inconsequential.
Worse still are the military-grade germ warfare viruses that the artificial intelligence can easily create.
Peter Olson, Goonengerry
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