The fools. The mad fools.<\/p>\n
If generations of science fiction have taught us anything, it is never give a machine a weapon<\/em>. Oh, it all starts out reasonably enough: cutting costs and eliminating human error and preserving soldiers from battlefield trauma. But give a machine a gun, and it’ll turn evil before the third act, if it wasn’t evil from the moment of creation. <\/p>\n But the boys in lab coats never learn, and now they’re using robots to patrol a Nevada weapons testing range<\/a>. As a cost-cutting measure. Uh huh.<\/p>\n HAL 9000 was scary enough without a machine gun; arming the things is just asking for trouble. But on nuclear test site<\/em>? Nuclear weapons and computers do not mix! If you give a computer nukes, it will use them. If you don’t give a computer a nuke, it will try to get one, hacking your security codes, peeking over operators’ shoulders, or slashing guards’ throats as necessary. Strangelove’s doomsday device, WOPR, and Skynet are just the best-known cases. It’s only a matter of time before these cute little guys<\/a> begin getting ideas of their own about the inefficiency of the human race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" latest sign of the apocalypse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}