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January 23rd, 2016 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
During the 2015 World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, the issue of killer robots came up, followed by a dire warning.
Coincidentally, UBS recently released their 2016 report to the Davos crowd. This document focused on the rising prevalence of automation, the cost to the worker class in potentially lost wages, and the effects on global markets.
With robots in the work force, UBS foresees “extreme levels of automation and connectivity will worsen already deepening inequalities by widening the wealth gap between developed and developing economies.”
Essentially, the suppositions surrounding the robopocolypse has its roots in the very real fact that robots are replacing humans in many ways – and will continue to do so.
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane said : “The world had been slow to take pre-emptive measures to protect humanity from the lethal technology. It may be too late.”
Kane is concerned that heads of state and their respective governments “do not understand” that the “deployment of autonomous weapons would represent a dangerous new era in warfare.”
Alan Winfield, professor of electronic engineering with the University of the West of England (UWE), believes that “that removing humans from battlefield decision-making would have grave consequences” because it “deprives” humans of the “moral responsibility” of war.
Winfield is also worried that robot soldiers “may be too hard to predict” and claims that beyond command programing, that just because the environment is chaotic, the robot will “behave chaotically”.
Roger Carr, chairman of the defense contractor BAE, focused his fears on ethics as well. He said : “If you remove ethics and judgement and morality from human endeavor whether it is in peace or war, you will take humanity to another level which is beyond our comprehension.”
About autonomous robots, Carr said: “You equally cannot put something into the field that, if it malfunctions, can be very destructive with no control mechanism from a human. That is why the umbilical link, man to machine, is not only to decide when to deploy the weapon but it is also the ability to stop the process. Both are equally important.”
Stuart Russell, professor of computer science for the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) told the audience at Davos: “We are talking about autonomous weapons, which means that there is no one behind it. AI: artificial intelligence weapons. Very precisely, weapons that can locate and attack targets without human intervention.”
Russell is “against robots for ethical reasons”; however he does not agree with the emotionally-charged “ethical arguments” brought forth at Davos. He said that “strategic arguments will win the day.”
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