Experts Claim A Robot War Is Inevitable And Little Is Being Done To Stop It

This is a mega-issue; and yet it is one that many may think either way off in the future, or, quite crudely, the stuff of Terminator fantasies. 

The UN General Assembly in New York has been approached by a number of countries and lobbyists to speed up the preemptive ban on autonomous weapons. The problem is, the UN is taking its time--a position these groups claim will tacitly abet the development and deployment of the very weapons being contested and admonished about. That if these deliberations go on for several years, it will simply be too late to stop them: the weapons will already be funded, developed, and those invested will want a return, according to the Guardian.  

The fear is that autonomous weapons, when grouped together, have the ability to swarm, and in that swarming can reach an emergent collective intelligence. The US, UK, and France all claim there is nothing to worry about, given that robots will always be controlled by a human. And yet we have seen in other articles on this blog and abroad that machines are on an exponential growth curve, widely known as Moore's Law. And as such, robots can reach unfathomable spikes of advancement that to control them would be impossible. This is the fear of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking and Bill Joy and many others: that we are creating technologies now under completely deregulatory conditions--and that's a startling thing!

This is an alarming issue of our times; and those developing these weapons are on a mission to build, and thus be, gods. The problem is, their creations will end up turning on and devouring them. What kind of logic is that?