I posted last night something I wrote a few months ago regarding Robots and warfare. I stumbled upon this video that totally expresses my points much more eloquently.
Mr. Singer is a Sr. Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defence Initiative run out of the Brookings Institution. CNN has named this guy to their "New Guard" List of the Next Generation of Newsmakers.
Our friends at the Financial Times have previously noted him as "Guru of the Week" for the thinker who most influenced the world that week and by Slate Magazine for "Quote of the Day."
Mr. Singer has also served as coordinator of the Obama-08 campaign’s defence policy task force. In '09, Singer was named by Foreign Policy Magazine in the Top 100 Global Thinkers List, of the people whose ideas most influenced the world that year.
SO, anyway…most of that info came directly from his website, but I've read up on him, this guy has some serious clout. I think this is worth watching. These are issues people need to start to discuss. Its 2010 people, the cold war is over and technology is changing us in almost unimaginable ways. New ideas and frank discussions are sorely needed to grapple with the new intellectual and philosophical challenges that we face, and will be facing increasingly in the future.
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