Links for 16-04-2007
Military ‘bot laws proposed, Afro-futurism 1.0…
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1 – New Laws of Robotics proposed for US kill-bots
“…robot warriors [...] autonomously deciding to blast enemy weapon systems. Many enemy “systems” would, of course, be themselves robots, so it’s clear that machine-on-machine violence isn’t a problem.”
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2 – Black to the Future: Afro-Futurism 1.0
“Hack this: Why do so few African-Americans write science fiction, a genre whose close encounters with the Other—the stranger in a strange land—would seem uniquely suited to the concerns of African-American novelists?”
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