VCJCS Selva Says US Must Not Let Robots Decide Who Dies; Supports LRSO
By Colin Clark on July 18, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Paul Selva
WASHINGTON: Admitting there’s a “raucous debate” in the US military about whether humans should allow robots to decide when to pull the trigger, the nation’s Nr. 2 uniformed officer told the Senate today that he doesn’t “think it’s reasonable to put robots in charge of whether we take a human life.”
Gen. Paul Selva, the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has been thinking deeply for years about the issue of what the Pentagon calls keeping humans in the loop, and today he offered a compelling argument for his position:
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