The
World Economic Forum (21 Sept 2015) in Davos, Switzerland took an
unexpected turn when US Marshalls from the Department of Justice
issued supoenas to attending Computer Scientists as part of a larger
investigation into alleged fraud at the very highest levels of
Academia. The scientists had been attending the conference as part
of an effort calling for a ban on the research and development of
autonomous weapons.
Giddyup ya lazy war doggies ! Time to go kill !
A spokesman for the Department of Justice said that the government was finding it difficult to believe that scientists had been taking grants from the Department of Defense into Machine Intelligence and related fields without understanding what the research was for. “It seems to us that this is mighty late in the day to suddenly announce that they thought it was a bad idea to pursue this technology. What were they thinking when they took all that money for the last five decades?”
Scientists replied that they had no idea that when they did projects for the Department of Defense on Artificial Intelligence in the Combat Zone that it had anything to do with weapons. "How could we possibly have guessed that was what on their mind?", asked one scientist.
Many scientists
appeared stunned when supoenas were handed them as they left the
session. One scientist was heard to mutter “Dont they know who we
are?”
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