http://futureoftheinternet.org/today-in-cybersecurity Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://futureoftheinternet.org/today-in-cybersecurity/comment-page-1#comment-3978 Bertil Hatt Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:42:12 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=579#comment-3978 One threat that I haven't seen mention anywhere it that if a majority of arms are carried by robots, soldiers under threat (untagged as allies) won't hesitate to shoot at the source of fire, neglecting the possiblity that it's a human-operated device. Of course, this demands an already wrong scenario — but all the doom's day scenario neglect a functionning kill-switch, and we all know how JZ's generativity doesn't appeal to such projects, so they *will* include a master witch. While the mistake that I describe is simply about violent humans assuming a glitch instead of considering the possiblity of the now classic friendly fire. One threat that I haven’t seen mention anywhere it that if a majority of arms are carried by robots, soldiers under threat (untagged as allies) won’t hesitate to shoot at the source of fire, neglecting the possiblity that it’s a human-operated device. Of course, this demands an already wrong scenario — but all the doom’s day scenario neglect a functionning kill-switch, and we all know how JZ’s generativity doesn’t appeal to such projects, so they *will* include a master witch. While the mistake that I describe is simply about violent humans assuming a glitch instead of considering the possiblity of the now classic friendly fire.

]]> http://futureoftheinternet.org/today-in-cybersecurity/comment-page-1#comment-3975 coffee Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:11:51 +0000 http://futureoftheinternet.org/?p=579#comment-3975 the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were doing something wrong, or at least "a little off" the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were doing something wrong, or at least “a little off”

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