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Feb 20 2009 2:26pm EDT

Lede of the Day: The Coming Robot Rebellion

From the Times of London (via Drudge):

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.

The stark warning -- which includes discussion of a Terminator-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters -- is issued in a hefty report funded by and prepared for the US Navy's high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research .
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