![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine if one of these killer drones gets hijacked in a war where it bombs its operators rather than the enemy. What started off as reconnaissance drones today have become remotely-operated killing machines which are controlled by “pilots” sitting in front of terminals thousands of kilometers away. If that drone had been armed, could the hackers have turned it against its former masters? In a 2015 article appearing in the journal, Communications of the ACM, authors John Arquilla and Duncan Buell asked this very question and then stated, “A coup of this sort would require a high level of technological sophistication and an absolute mastery of the radio-electromagnetic spectrum, but the consequences of one side being able to do this would be catastrophic for the side whose robots were taken over.” In an incident in 2011, Iranians claimed they hacked an American drone and redirected it to land in their territory. bad authentication and password practices.In a 2017 study of robot operating systems and software, hackers identified 50 security weaknesses including: Hackers have been honing their trade by attacking domestic and industrial robots, altering safety settings, or turning their audio and video capabilities into spying devices. Add to this the potential of human or robotic intelligence hacking into the robots in your military to turn them against you and you can imagine the disastrous implications of such activity. Of all of these, one stands out as very troubling, robots in the military, because they can use the other technological advances to become machines of war that could disable not just enemy robots, but also kill their human creators. Octo– We are witnessing a convergence of technologies today that will yield the Smart Web, 5G telecommunications global networks, satellite-based Internet connectivity, the deployment of trillions of smart sensors and devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), and robots governed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that will become ubiquitous in militaries around the world. ![]()
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