In
looking into the knapweed root weevil issue it occurred to me that
the future micro-robots well used in so many movies including GI Joe
2, could be used to attack humanity generally as if they were a weed
infestation that needed control.
While Elon Musk and others have warned about artificial intelligence and robots with a license to kill (the 007 robot), and others have pointed out the problems of nano-machines that could be sewed in water and air vectors to infect humans and kill them from the inside out, tiny robots the size of bugs could also be designed to attack more cleverly than ticks and kill a human with a variety; a veritable cornucopia, of tools from poison, drilling into a heart or brain etc.
http://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-joins-100-tech-chiefs-warning-un-that-killer-robots-could-be-third-revolution-of-warfare-10998721
Probably
there should be some sort of government intelligence office
specifically tasked with keeping track of robotic and other
unconventional vectors that are potentially very harmful to human
existence.
One may readily imagine micro-bots able to target and attack particular forms of human beings rather than all indiscriminately. One day mind-reading robots or at least those able to read bar codes or implants identifying political party membership for instance as a kill-worthy target may arrive. There will be lesser evils of course, that fall short of mortal interaction of machines of all sizes with human life forms. Soon chipping with temporary implants foreign visitors to the United States or at least from nations with a high content of terrorists, in order to track them around the U.S.A. with rft scanners that are already ubiquitous. Practical defense issues will once again impact the wall of protections given unto U.S. citizens
One may readily imagine micro-bots able to target and attack particular forms of human beings rather than all indiscriminately. One day mind-reading robots or at least those able to read bar codes or implants identifying political party membership for instance as a kill-worthy target may arrive. There will be lesser evils of course, that fall short of mortal interaction of machines of all sizes with human life forms. Soon chipping with temporary implants foreign visitors to the United States or at least from nations with a high content of terrorists, in order to track them around the U.S.A. with rft scanners that are already ubiquitous. Practical defense issues will once again impact the wall of protections given unto U.S. citizens
