Threats of the artificial intelligence and autonomic robot systems

Image from movie "Terminator"

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The next race with developing weapon systems is about the artificial intelligence and integrating it with weapon systems. Somebody says that will save lives of the soldiers, but that will cause the great threat to all of the people of the world. If some dictator will able to get robot army in the command, might that person only need to give them orders and those robots will do anything that that person orders?


The reason why robots are the interesting  thing for the army commanders is that those machines can kill people without moral and ethical aspect. But when are talking about using of artificial intelligence in.military purpose, we must realize that the greatest weakness of those programs and machines is that they can't do anything that is not predicted.


They can’t generate their own ideas, and those programs are not able to use imagination for their actions. They can’t generate anything new, and that is the greatest weakness about those programs. They don’t have any visions or any imagination what to do if something goes wrong. The problem with the artificial intelligence is that it can pollute with the computer virus, what destroys it code, and those killer robots can be stopped by using EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) against it.


Also, nano-machine swarms can be stopped by simple way, those machines communication can be denied with electronic countermeasures, what denies those nano helicopters digital communication. Those countermeasure signals are able to give by any radio in the world. When we are talking about killer robots, they are of course great support equipment, but those machines still need operators that they can accomplish their missions.


What makes those killer robots so dangerous for humans is that some “security company” can operate with them, and making genocides around the world. Those robots might equip with self-destruction explosives, that nobody ever gets to know, what has been happening in some jungle. Also, undemocratic governments are interesting about those machines, because they can be operated by the president's office. That is why some countries have been put resources to train computer science and mathematics.


Robots are very trusty things, but if somebody hacks those systems and takes some attack droid under the command, the results might be catastrophic.In one scenario some operators equip Predator UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles) or killer-drones with back gates, and they will take some of those robots under their command.


Here we are talking about one Predator, what can be marked as a destroyed thing, and after that those hackers can use that drone for their own purposes. In this scenario, the team, that wants to steal that machine will put the trojan horse to that “Predators” central computer, and after that, the computer virus can open the system for hackers.  And results can be devastating if those drones will go to unauthorized use.