You know what acronyms are, right? Like
DOD for Department of Defense. Acronyms are the initials that become so
well-known, they virtually become the "names" of organizations or
concepts. Well, here's a doozy for you and it's absolutely perfect for our braindead era:
I ran into this gem while reading an article about an AI expert who is calling on others in the field to oppose:
"lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)—armed robots that enter the battlefield without human masters and make decisions about who to kill."
LAWS. Could
any acronym be more appalling than this one? LAWS are the robots in the
sky who will come to kill you. You can't invent irony this deep and
delicious; you just have to encounter it cold turkey.
And as for the call for all AI researchers to oppose this, hell yes! Haven't you heard of SkyNet? You're creating it, fer god's sake.
