ALL THE ROBOTS

Okay you guys, remember this post? Mocha though she would never be able to use the "robots" tag again. But, thanks to it Being the Future For Real, she can!

The United Nations Human Rights Commission recently posted a report online about the "legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans". Because there are robots that exist right now that are only a step or two away from being able to make autonomus decisions about WHO TO KILL.

Actually.

This is crazy! And it opens up some fascinating questions and compelling arguments both for and against this new technology. (It's already got us thinking about some pretty heavy stuff which we won't get into here, because this is a happy blog! HAPPY!)

Suffice it to say, we'd rather the future look like this:

Instead of this:

It's Officially The Future

Trust the BBC news magazine to always ask the hard-hitting, pertinent questions faced by today's intelligent, media-savvy readers:

"When are we going to learn to trust robots?"

Silly BBC. We trust them when we know they'll follow the Three Laws of Robotics.

Or if they look like this:

That's trust, right there. Trust and LOVE.