Disturbing implications

[wombat_socho]

You know, if you take this to its logical (if perhaps absurd) conclusion, the use of unintelligent software packages to guide cruise missiles may someday be regarded as morally equivalent to teaching kids with Down's syndrome to become tokkotai pilots. Come to think of it, I seem to recall a story in Heavy Metal years ago about this.

(Instapundit)

Comments

[nornagest.livejournal.com]

This seems like jumping the gun to me. We don't even have a satisfactory definition of "intelligence" yet, and as far as we can tell the machine intelligence that we have created thinks in a very different way than we do.

The inclusion of "futurists" and a sci-fi writer on the committee is a big red flag, anyway.