Tuesday, September 23, 2008

What Is It Good For?

Weapons Against Robots (WAR) is a company started by internet millionaire Ben Way (not to be confused with ballmaker BenWa) as a means to defend humanity against the inevitable robot uprising. The company will "combat the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence through the creation of anti-robot weaponry, detection and monitoring of robots, and use of anti-robot viruses. Way believes that, as AI is increasingly used in warfare and defense, it is prudent to ready countermeasures in the event, not only of an enemy's use of robotics, but that an intelligence's programming goes awry."

Good move, Ben! I may actually get some sleep tonight... but my anti-robot baseball bat stays under my pillow.

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