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[internetworkers] Robot Army 2035

From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [internetworkers] Robot Army 2035
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:42:13 -0500 (EST)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16robots.html
BugMeNot:
redrum7
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> Trusting robots with potentially lethal decision-making may require
> a leap of faith in technology not everyone is ready to make. Bill
> Joy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has worried aloud that 21st-
> century robotics and nanotechnology may become "so powerful that
> they can spawn whole new classes of accidents and abuses."

[internetworkers] Robot Army 2035, Alan MacHett, 02/17/2005