Annotated Bibliography
Omohundro, Steve. "Autonomous Technology And The Greater Human Good." Journal
Of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 26.3 (2014): 303. Advanced
Placement Source. Web. 4 Jan. 2017.
Steve Omohundro, a researcher in machine learning, in his article, “Autonomous Technology and the Greater Human Good”, published in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence addresses the topic of autonomous systems and argues that the introduction of true AI would have huge implications in the future of the word economy, and also military intervention. The article starts its claim by stating that autonomous robots are imminent. Driven by the “arms race” for rapid decision making in a military and economic …show more content…
Space Technology for Controlling China and Russia” addresses the topic of suppressing the military growth that both China and Russia have made, proposing a few solutions. The authors first remedy is to resume President Obama’s call for abolition of nuclear armaments, which have cause a lot of much needed tensions and hostility for many countries around the world. However, recent upgrading of missile defence has brought upon by the US has greatly diminished the chance of that happening. He quotes a former Soviet president who said that the only way to create a truly nuclear free world would be to practically demilitarize the entire world, an event that is practically impossible. The second solution he presents is to move in the completely opposite direction and begin to militarize outer space. A major limitation that he points out almost immediately is that this feat could not be carried out by the US alone, as the cost is too great for us to bear. However, sending intelligence satellites like we are currently using has benefited our country. The information we get about countries has allowed us to keep tabs on their actions, and try and sense their motives before they can carry out any plan, effectively reducing the threat that their military has. The plan is to build satellites to act as a defence system, one that would detect and destroy any missile that is …show more content…
The author starts out by equating private contractors to mercenaries, which they state that “this is seen by the international public opinion as something completely different from the very same action taken through [private contractors]. Yet the consequences are usually the same”(Karsa and Karski 16). This acquisition then resumes, as they point out that with current practices, these private industries are pretty much on their own, without any accountability for the actions they take. This problem is then magnified when they are hired by non-state parties, without any governmental affiliation, or international communities, like the UN. They then expose the workaround the UN currently uses, which rather than hiring militant groups, which would be labeled as mercenaries, they hire “Private Security Companies” to carry out specific tasks.This prompts the authors to say that more regulations should be set into place by the same international organizations that hire these groups, in order to place accountability on the people they hire. They then conclude the article with hope, as the Human Rights Council of the UN has
Omohundro, Steve. "Autonomous Technology And The Greater Human Good." Journal
Of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 26.3 (2014): 303. Advanced
Placement Source. Web. 4 Jan. 2017.
Steve Omohundro, a researcher in machine learning, in his article, “Autonomous Technology and the Greater Human Good”, published in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence addresses the topic of autonomous systems and argues that the introduction of true AI would have huge implications in the future of the word economy, and also military intervention. The article starts its claim by stating that autonomous robots are imminent. Driven by the “arms race” for rapid decision making in a military and economic …show more content…
Space Technology for Controlling China and Russia” addresses the topic of suppressing the military growth that both China and Russia have made, proposing a few solutions. The authors first remedy is to resume President Obama’s call for abolition of nuclear armaments, which have cause a lot of much needed tensions and hostility for many countries around the world. However, recent upgrading of missile defence has brought upon by the US has greatly diminished the chance of that happening. He quotes a former Soviet president who said that the only way to create a truly nuclear free world would be to practically demilitarize the entire world, an event that is practically impossible. The second solution he presents is to move in the completely opposite direction and begin to militarize outer space. A major limitation that he points out almost immediately is that this feat could not be carried out by the US alone, as the cost is too great for us to bear. However, sending intelligence satellites like we are currently using has benefited our country. The information we get about countries has allowed us to keep tabs on their actions, and try and sense their motives before they can carry out any plan, effectively reducing the threat that their military has. The plan is to build satellites to act as a defence system, one that would detect and destroy any missile that is …show more content…
The author starts out by equating private contractors to mercenaries, which they state that “this is seen by the international public opinion as something completely different from the very same action taken through [private contractors]. Yet the consequences are usually the same”(Karsa and Karski 16). This acquisition then resumes, as they point out that with current practices, these private industries are pretty much on their own, without any accountability for the actions they take. This problem is then magnified when they are hired by non-state parties, without any governmental affiliation, or international communities, like the UN. They then expose the workaround the UN currently uses, which rather than hiring militant groups, which would be labeled as mercenaries, they hire “Private Security Companies” to carry out specific tasks.This prompts the authors to say that more regulations should be set into place by the same international organizations that hire these groups, in order to place accountability on the people they hire. They then conclude the article with hope, as the Human Rights Council of the UN has