Persuasive Essay On Technology Driven World

In today’s technology driven world, we have seen new innovations in many industries. A great example of this is the defense industry. Militaries around the world have already adopted new technologies like unmanned drones and advanced facial scanning. And the next step is the artificial intelligence era of weapons called lethal autonomous weapons systems or LAWS. Around the world, countries including South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States have begun implementing these technologies, for example, automated gun turrets and drones that have the ability to kill without a person making the decision. However, we will not be able to see these technologies on the battlefield anytime soon. Because of a United Nations ban on development, due to fears on controlling and using these technologies. Many fear that these technologies will develop into unstoppable killing machines like in the science-fiction movie “Terminator”. The problem is that this technology …show more content…
The philosophers discussed how, “morality cannot be boiled down to a list of instructions”, and, “that no matter how complicated a machine becomes, it will never be able to act for the right reasons.” They fear that artificial intelligence will not be able to place a reason behind an action and lacks accountability for its actions, and this could create huge issues with completely autonomous weapons, similar to deploying psychopathic but well-mannered soldiers onto the battlefield. They close with an interesting viewpoint that if everything works out and artificial intelligence becomes better than humans at decision making, what stops humanity from outsourcing all of their decision making to artificial