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React faster.
Do not fall behind.
The adversary is already doing it.
If we build it responsibly, we can shape the norm.
If we refuse, less responsible actors will lead.
Every one of those statements can be true and still lead to a world
no one chose.
The ICRC recommends prohibiting unpredictable autonomous
weapons and systems designed or used to apply force against people.
The United Nations Secretary-General has called for new
prohibitions and restrictions and for humans to retain control over
life-and-death decisions. [7][8]
I agree.
No machine should autonomously select a human being as the
object of lethal force.
This is not because machines are demons.
It is because killing a person is not only a technical act. It is a
legal and moral judgment made under uncertainty. The judgment
must remain attached to a human being who can understand the
context, answer for the decision, and choose mercy.
A machine cannot choose mercy.
It can be programmed not to fire under defined conditions.
Mercy is different.
Mercy recognizes a person beyond the category.
The old books asked humanity to remember the Beast: the
organic life that refuses to disappear.
The third book draws a boundary around the human face.
Classification may inform.
Prediction may warn.
Automation may defend equipment under tightly constrained
conditions.
But a human life must not end because a generalized profile
matched.
That is the line.
Write it before the capability becomes normal.
NO MACHINE MAY CHOOSE A HUMAN FOR DEATH.
FFTAC ACTION - Request the rules, tests, incident reports, and
human-responsibility chain for autonomous force. A classified system
must not become an unaccountable system.