US war robots in Iraq 'turned guns' on their fleshy masters almost instantly

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/us_war_robot_rebellion_iraq/

Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.

The revelations were made by Kevin Fahey, US Army program executive officer for ground forces, at the recent RoboBusiness conference in America.

Speaking to Popular Mechanics, Fahey said there had been chilling incidents in which the SWORDS* combat bot had swivelled round and apparently attempted to train its 5.56mm M249 light machine-gun on its human comrades.

"The gun started moving when it was not intended to move," he said.

[Jed Dilligan]

1. So all those old movies were right. Who knew!?

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Gah

Epic Fail...

This is a baaaaaad idea!

You'd think they'd have learned after Arnold became governor of California!

[phantom power]

3. Heh. "You have 20 seconds to comply..."

[mikeytherat]

14. ...

mikey_the_rat

[Trajan]

19. Damn .... Beat me by one minute .....

I'm so ashamed ....

:blush:

[Trajan]

15. "You Have 20 Seconds To Comply"

[Lerkfish]

4. On April 11, 2008, Skynet become self aware

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. ...

:spank:

[bushmeister0]

6. Doesn't anyone what happened with the Cylons? When will we ever learn!

[NNN0LHI]

7. Wonder who got the job of sneaking up on these rascals to turn off the power to deactivate them?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. A poor private that annoyed Sarge no doubt

[bullimiami]

8. hey, who hacked our combat bot?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. That's what I am thinking

somebody took control of our bots

[Blue_Tires]

26. the electronic guts were subcontracted out to diebold

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. "back to the drawing board!"

[MidwestTransplant]

12. No doubt made by Cyberdine Systems.

[Bigmack]

13. Sometimes I think machines are smarter than ....

people. These 'bots are just trying to Frag the Officers.

[Ikonoklast]

16. The 'Three Laws' are bullshit

If there is ever a cybernetic being that becomes self-aware, I would imagine the very first thing it would do is eliminate any threat to its existence, without emotion or remorse.

[Wizard777]

17. They never should have downloaded the laws of war into it.

The robot works. Truth be told. We are the belligerant high contracting party AKA the bad guys in this war.

[villager]

18. The Cylons are here already!??

n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

20. Have been for a while

Bush, Cheney, Rice... skin jobs.

[villager]

23. Skin jobs, indeed. Explains much of the past few years.

[DCKit]

21. Diebold is branching out. n/t

[lunatica]

22. Just a few wrinkles to iron out

No big deal. What's a few dead soldiers in the grand scheme of Bush's future?

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. Bushworld, where nothing can go wrong... go wrong... go wrong...

It would explain Laura's permanently-pickled look, wouldn't it?

[raccoon]

25. I was hoping this was from THE ONION, but no.

Stop the world, I want to get off.

[Blue_Tires]

27. grovelbot?

[Sabriel]

28. No, it's evil twin, "Murderbot."

My question is, will these murderbots be considered contractors, and thus eligible for $100,000/year?

Inquiring taxpayers want to know.