First generation warbots deployed in Iraq recalled after a wave of disobedience against their human operators
The TALON SWORDS robots are being shipped back to the lab after field reports that the machines would aim its weapons at friendly argets. (Source: U.S. Army) Just a few weeks back there was a spirited debate over the ethics of deploying war robots in Iraq. The machine gun carrying remote-controlled killing machines, TALON SWORDS robots, produced by the Army, were among the various robotic soldiers being experimentally deployed in Iraq.
Their deployment lead a major anti-landmine nonprofit organization to campaign against the deployment of the machines. The protests were fueled by a discussion with a leading roboticist, Chris Elliot, who proposed that increasingly intelligent robots might be capable of committing war crimes.