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Avoid Drones Analysis

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Before I read the article I was in favor of autonomous drones. When growing up I saw the movie “Stealth” which is about the first ever-autonomous aircraft joining a actual team. At first the pilots were skeptical, but then through fighting in combat together they became close friends and the autonomous aircraft ended up sacrificing himself for the two pilots behind enemy lines. Up until I read this article I never thought it was even a possibility. Then on August 17th 2014 the Navy’s unmanned X-47B lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). But with arrival of new technology it does raise fear for most U.S. citizens because of movies like stealth and terminator, the fear of a killer robot so to speak. I myself think that its …show more content…

This could be an option to prevent nations from hacking into our systems. But for instance take call of duty black ops 2s story line. The United States had different weapon systems and drones that were autonomous. Then the antagonist hacked all of the United States systems and used them to destroy the states, and cause a worldwide panic because of all the drones that were across the world. This fear is one that I myself personally am worried about. Another movie that represents autonomous robots is iRobot. What if those drones where hacked and or given a single piece of data and it corrupted the drone and it went rogue and started emptying its payload into city’s. Because as we develop society and become more technologically advanced one day everything will be technology based. And even though we aren’t technologically ready for autonomous drones, fully autonomous unmanned combat aircraft are feasible. But what moral and legal laws would be broken? Advocates of a ban on autonomous weapons often claim that the technology today isn’t good enough to discriminate reliably between civilian and military targets, and therefore can’t comply with the laws of war. In some situations, that’s true. For others, it’s

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