THE PRESENT ARMY – BETWEEN (RE) HUMANIZATION
AND ROBOTICS
This paper represents an embodiment of the continuing concerns
expressed towards a responsible use of intelligence and also shows confidence
in the power of education to correct harmful behaviors that risk to transform
technology – in general – and robotic military technologies – in particular – into
a tool of abuse, domination and control of the powerful against the weak; it
warns deciding factors in the military environment on the need to invest in
equipment’s that are fully consistent with diversity and today’s challenges, but
also represent a first rank ally in the direction of protecting both human factor,
and the planet’s health. It also calls for the (re)assessment of the way its own
relationship with robotic technologies is perceived, emphasizing the importance
of keeping that percentage of the humanity existing in all of us, to prevent the
transformation of Rodney A. Brooks’ words into reality: “robots will become
more like us, and we will become more like them”. It also warns teachers that
besides polishing intelligences during the years of study, it is necessary to
create an environment where its carriers can generate fertile ideas and daring
projects still placed under the sign of technological humanism (in the absence
of the general human values, intelligence risks to become a lethal weapon!)
Keywords: humanism technologically advanced military technologies,
„partnership ” human – artificial, technological progress – progress moral
Cuvinte cheie: umanism tehnologic, tehnologii militare avansate,
“parteneriat” uman-artificial, progres tehnologic – progres moral