Difference between killer- and an industrial robot is only in their programming.

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In the real world, we all want to say "no" to autonomous combat robots, what might be the greatest threat for peace today. The artificial intelligence makes possible to make robots, what are looking innocent, and they can be used in some normal work, but when they would see the targeted object, what have ordered to exterminate those robots would attack that target immediately. In this case let's say as an example the gardener robot would noticed something treating, that robot can be transforming as the combat robot, and maybe in that robot's arms is hired machine guns or laser weapons, and when something, what is ordered to exterminate would come in sight, would the wrist turn down, and uncover the nasty surprise.


This example, what I just gave, is one of the most feared things in the world of robotics. It is known as the "ghost protocol", and that means that normally the peaceful working robot would turn to combat robot, when it notices the target, what is dangerous for it or it masters. When some nation would say "no" to killer robots, they have forgotten that only programming would make difference between peaceful and the killer robot.  And in the real situation, the operators of the robots would just upload combat programs in those working robots by using the Internet. And this means that there is a change, to make the full army of robots in seconds by using industrial robots, what are equipped with those combat programs.


The Russians are always against this kind of programs because they have no experience in building the sophisticated robots, but their way to make new nuclear missiles authorizes Western world to make autonomous killer robots. And this is the problem with robotics, the same machine can do many missions, like working in the mining sites and other dirty and dangerous places. If the robots are made looking like humans, they could use same tools as humans, but in this case "one model fits all" can get the notorious shape because those human-shaped robots can also be used as the warriors because they can operate with normal infantry weapons. And the use of those weapons is needs only the program update, that those robots could transfer as the combat models in one second, by sending those programs by using the Internet.

Sources:

https://futurism.com/germany-pledges-not-killer-robots/

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2014/08/top-six-strategic-threats-worry-about-todays-global-headlines/92000/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/un-told-to-ban-killer-robots-before-they-become-a-reality/

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Soon robots would make own decision when they will open the fire

B-52H "Stratofortress"
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Kimmo Huosionmaa


Soon airborne combat robots like Predator-drones can make their own decision to open the fire against targets. That system would be most effective in air-combat robots, what are similar than X-47B. Also, it would help to produce flying missile stations like robot versions of B-52 bombers. Those bombers can patrol in years in the atmosphere if there would be fuel supply. And if they would get orders, those planes can attack immediately.  This technology bases the same image recognition system, what is used in many cities.


Image recognition system recognizes the weapons, and then in normal situation calls the security personnel to the positions. But in airborne combat robots, this system would open the fire with missiles and machine guns. Also, the image recognition system allows to track enemy tanks and armored personnel carriers, and then that system would open the fire with laser-guided missiles. In this scenario own troops use the recognition systems, what would send the digital code to those airborne drones, and that helps them to avoid the shoot own military personnel.


But the similar system would be very effective when it is used in early warning satellites. In this case, space-borne ABM (Anti Ballistic Missile) system would be equipped with automatized firing mode. In this case would the early-warning satellite and combat satellite combination orbit around the earth. When the missile launch would be detected, that satellite would use salvo of rocket ammunition against those missiles. The best angle to begin shoot those kinetic-energy rockets is forward to incoming warheads, when the projectile gets best impact energy as possible. Also, the microwave or laser-based systems are probably used in future.


When those warheads or missiles are targeted the microwave band radars, their electronic components would be damaged, and if the core of warhead will be damaged, would it melt in the atmosphere. This would cause that the warhead would not detonate, and radioactive material will be delivered to the area. Of course, that will cause cancer, but for the tactical situation, those radioactive bites do not have influence. The "autonomic" kill mode for those combat robots would, of course, cause reactions against those robots.

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Writing about the robots and apocalypse

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are talking about the apocalypse and robots, we must consider that robotics and automation might cause the civil disorders, because they will replace the human workers in the jobs, what normally are reserved to the persons, who are young and uneducated. That thing might cause the increase of unemployment people who are ready to start the rebellions. Robots might replace the workers who have age between 16-25, and when those people will hanging in the shopping center, there might be some disorders.


But when we are talking about the rebellion of robots, that will not cause by robots themselves. There will be some person, who will start attacks against the legal governments with the combat robots, what might be built by the government itself or they can be produced without the permission what was given by the government in some underground factory what is controlled by some private actor, and what might stand hidden inside the jungle of Congo.


That robot base, what might be straight from the "James Bond" movie could be built in some African state, and it might be fully automatized modified car factory, what will build the combat drones. This is terrifying scenario because many African states are corrupted dictatorships, and their leaders need the western technology for supporting their power in some very poor nation. But we might fight back if the robots will attack.


There are the weapons what are effective only against the robots, but they cannot normally harm the humans. Those weapons are extremely powerful EMP-pulses, what can be synthesized by the radio-telescopes and orbital nuclear weapons. The radio waves could also use to deny the communication between drones and their operators. The plasma what can be made in the atmosphere can deny also the use of GPS-system.


And in the case of unauthorized use of the GPS, those satellites can be shut down by their operators, what makes difficult to locate those drones. Of course, the GPS-satellites can be destroyed by the ASAT-weapon.  And the second thing what might be used against those drones is computer viruses, what mission is to delete the operating system of the drones and their manufacturing sites. But the misuse of the drones is the extremely bad threat and the many dictators want to replace their armies by the robots. And those machines are cheap to produce, what makes them capable of use by some dictator, and in some visions that man would sit in his office, and controls the drones, what might attack against any person, who was talking or acting against some dictator.

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Why are robots the threat to individual people?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

The reason why people are talking about killer robots is not only because the governments are making those machine. Also, private entrepreneurs and criminals can make robots and use them for their own purposes. They might use the same nursery robots what Japanese engineers make as a mercenary or assassination operations. And of course, some street gangs will able to steal those robots and use them for criminal activities like robberies.  This one is the much bigger threat to individual persons than some kind of governmental actions.




And when we are talking about the use of the robots in the battlefield, we must know that there is a lot of weapons, what is capable to destroy robots, but they don’t have any effect against the human being. The most effective weapon against robot mass army is a large scale  EMP-attack against those machines. This kind of EMP-pulse can be made with high yield nuclear weapon, what will detonate just outside the atmosphere.


And another way to make those weapons ineffective is to use high power radio transmitters against those robots. Those transmitters will induct the electric field in those robots, and they will cause that those computers stop to work, and that will cause the malfunction of that machine. Those high power radio transmitters can work with the capacitor, what will give the very powerful electric pulse to the array, and that pulse might cause the cutting off the system.


When nanosize RPV:s are operating in some area, their mutual data communication and communication between those vehicles and support station can be cut by high power ECM (Electronic Counter Mission) systems like EC-130 “Commando Solo”, but that equipment must not make especially for those purposes. Normal radio stations and transmitters can cut the data communication between those drones and their operators, what makes their control impossible.


But in the future is a possibility, that criminals use that equipment against their victims. And in some scenarios is possible that some gangs will use the stolen waiter and nursery robots in the illegal activities like robberies, kidnappings, and murders. Those robots allow the operators control them with the same kind of equipment what animation workers use when they make movements for their characters. That equipment like Virtual Reality Headsets and Gloves and the suits what sends the movement of the body to the robots. But maybe tomorrow we have also protective systems like radio bombs against that military equipment.

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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.