{"id":1115,"date":"2009-02-22T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T03:25:08","slug":"repostnice-post-on-robot-moralityrough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-the-artificial-morality-of-the-robot-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/repostnice-post-on-robot-moralityrough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-the-artificial-morality-of-the-robot-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Nice Post on Robot Morality:Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#039;s Blog: The artificial morality of the robot warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 212px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Robot_asimo_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photography imported on the site Flickr.com by...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/Robot_asimo_cropped.jpg\/202px-Robot_asimo_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Photography imported on the site Flickr.com by...\" width=\"202\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Robot_asimo_cropped.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Personally I think they need to read the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"I, Robot\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%2C_Robot\">I,Robot<\/a> novels.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The artificial <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Morality\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morality\">morality<\/a> of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robot\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robot\">robot<\/a> warrior<br \/>\nFebruary 21, 2009<br \/>\nGreat strides have been made in recent years in the development of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robot combat\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robot_combat\">combat robots<\/a>. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Military of the United States\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_of_the_United_States\">US military<\/a> has deployed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&amp;t=h\">ground<\/a> robots, aerial robots, marine robots, stationary robots, and (reportedly) space robots. The robots are used for both <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Reconnaissance\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconnaissance\">reconnaissance<\/a> and fighting, and further rapid advances in their design and capabilities can be expected in the years ahead. One consequence of these advances is that robots will gain more <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Autonomy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autonomy\">autonomy<\/a>, which means they will have to act in uncertain situations without direct human instruction. That raises a large and thorny challenge: how do you program a robot to be an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ethics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethics\">ethical<\/a> warrior?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/the_artificial.php\">Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#8217;s Blog: The artificial morality of the robot warrior<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/3e423a53-1360-4d5a-8d94-27783ae3bb72\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia Personally I think they need to read the I,Robot novels. The artificial morality of the robot warrior February 21, 2009 Great strides have been made in recent years in the development of combat robots. The US military has deployed ground robots, aerial robots, marine robots, stationary robots, and (reportedly) space robots. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/repostnice-post-on-robot-moralityrough-type-nicholas-carrs-blog-the-artificial-morality-of-the-robot-warrior\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Nice Post on Robot Morality:Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#039;s Blog: The artificial morality of the robot warrior&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[361,520,751,953,1218,1219,1220,1468],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","tag-competitions","tag-ethics","tag-irobot","tag-military-of-the-united-states","tag-robot","tag-robot-combat","tag-robotics","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}