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Boston Dynamics and other industry heavyweights pledge not to build war robots

that have been a mainstay in asymmetric conflicts since the '80s.

"We also pledge to explore the development of technological features that could mitigate or reduce these risks," the group continued, but"to be clear, we are not taking issue with existing technologies that nations and their government agencies use to defend themselves and uphold their laws." They also call on policymakers as well as the rest of the robotics development community to take up similar pledges.

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They'll have to make them no more durable than any human!!

a weapon? no, no. that's a boombox on his back

oops too late

But did they pinky swear?

I’d like a half dozen of the machine gun wielding robot doggies please.

Of course they won't but the military will retrofit them to be.

The regular robots will create the war robots.

Right.

Rrrrrrrrright!

I’m $ure they would never do $omething like that. $arcasm

'We're not going to build war robots' Here, take this very large pile of money 'New plan, we're going to build war robots'

'we're not going to build war robots'

In another news... sources have confirmed that 'the Taliban government has pledged to bring democracy in Afghanistan'

Obviously. Then the bad guy gets a hold of the robot or holds the main scientist hostage. Then the world is ending. We have all seen this movie.

A nice way to show that promise with that gun on top of the horse robot.

We will however provide handy gun mounts that shouldn't be used for guns but conveniently fit, and the software to programme them. This is mostly about avoiding blame when the inevitable horror happens.

That's what i'd say if I was building war robots.

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