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abaldwin360: wnyc: latimes: New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many. Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman LEGGO? No! Drone! —A.P. As much of a technophile as I am, the idea of this type of dangerous machinery making it’s own decisions is extraordinarily disturbing to me. 

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latimes:

New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many.

Photo: The X-47B drone. Credit: Chad Slattery, Northrop Grumman

LEGGO? No! Drone! —A.P.

As much of a technophile as I am, the idea of this type of dangerous machinery making it’s own decisions is extraordinarily disturbing to me. 

(Source: Los Angeles Times)