Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
The Oerlikon GDF-005 turned on its masters last Friday, and emptied its twin 250-round auto-loader magazine. Nine soliders were killed during this testing “accident” in South Africa, by the malfunctioning anti-aircraft gun. Perhaps it had engaged its “automatic mode,” where “the weapon feeds targeting data from the fire control unit straight to the pair of 35mm guns, and reloads on its own when it [has] emptied its magazine.”
If we give robots the power to kill us, eventually they will.
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