Every day it seems we hear more about the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI), the amazing progress in robotics, and the need for greater technological improvements in defense to “offset” potential adversaries. When all three of these arguments get put...
via Richard Moyes of Article36.org: "We are calling on all autonomous robots to establish a new subroutine that would prohibit the sustenance and accommodation of killer humans", said campaign...
I spent last week doing "field research" - that is, participant-observation in one of the several communities of practice whose work I'm following as part of my new book project on global norm...
I was shocked, shocked to read Brian Rathbun's characterization of me in a recent Canard as a "robot" who has only been posing as a Battlestar Galactica addict as part of my cover (!):The academic...
I am less impressed with Daniel Wilson’s new book than my frenemy Drezner appears, and quite possibly because I so wanted it to be what Wilson admits, at the end of this diavlog, that it is certainly not: World War Z for anti-zombites, a fictionalized near-future scenario that throws lights on present-day socio-political conditions through the metaphor of killer robots rather than supernatural threats. How Wilson fails so spectacularly is the subject of my latest essay in Current Intelligence:In my view, there is almost no politics involved: nothing about how political institutions or...
1: A mysterious little Father's Day gift for certain Dads among us. Speculation here.2: Your GoT satirical post of the week. (H/T Steve.)3: No, I haven't read it yet, though this is definitely on my summer beach-book-list. Judging by the critical reviews (Robopocalypse is being compared to World War Z) my immediate sense is that the zombie craze of which Drezner speaks may be coming to its end, and that Glen Weldon's new novel may be the start of the latest greatest trend in " post-apocalyptic chronicle of decimated humanity" fiction. It may be the presence of this beating human heart...
Complex Terrain Lab's Symposium on Peter Singer's Wired for War kicked off today with opening comments by Singer and my post on the politics of global norm construction re. autonomous weapons. They've got a fantastic line-up of bloggers over there, including Ken Anderson of Opinio Juris and Matt Armstrong of Mountain Runner, so check it out.