This article talks about the advancement of robots in the military, specifically in the United States. It talks about a documentary film, Remote Control War, in which it shows that some soldiers can be sitting in rooms controlling heavy duty aircrafts with a remote while the aircraft is dropping bombs on areas of Afghanistan. They say that this advancement in technology is going to change warfare forever. For example, the U.S. military has robots that can dispose of bombs and if the bomb explodes that no lives are lost only a robot. This makes being in the armed forces a little safer. Also scientists say that in the next couple of decades, robots are going to be able to do anything that a soldier can.
I think that the fact that the military is using remote control aircrafts and robots that can diffuse bombs is really cool, but in the long run it could have a negative effect. The fact that these robots will lower the number of friendly casualties is good, but what happens when the robots become to advanced? If scientists start to develop robots that can think for themselves things could go wrong. All of a sudden robots could start to rebel against humans like in the Terminator. This is why I think that the development of robotic technology in warfare is good but scientists should make the robots capable of thinking for themselves.
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