WASHINGTON (WNB) - The Obama administration has awarded $7.5 million to researchers from Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brown, Yale and Georgetown Univerities to design and build autonomous military robots with a sense of right and wrong.
"The new breed of military robots will be more human-like and as such, must be programed with a moral set mirroring their human counterparts," said project head Paul Bettino.
"For example, autonomous robots will be programmed to know that killing non-combatants is unacceptable behavior, unless of course it's an unwanted unborn baby. Also, they will have to understand the difference between two men fighting and having sex - in today's military that's critical."