wsj:Robot Soldiers Will Be a Reality—and a Threat Given the obvious dangers, fully autonomous offensive lethal weapons should never be permitted.

Robot Soldiers Will Be a Reality—and a Threat

Given the obvious dangers, fully autonomous offensive lethal weapons should never be permitted.

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Another technology is even more radical. Neuroscientists and philosophers are exploring the parameters of "whole brain emulation," which would involve uploading a mind from a brain into a non-biological substrate. It might be that Moore's Law (the idea that computing capacity doubles about every two years) would have to persist for decades in order for a computer to be sufficiently powerful to receive an uploaded mind. Then again, the leap might come by means of the new science of quantum computing—machines that use atomic mechanical phenomena instead of transistors to manage vast amounts of information. Experiments with quantum computing are already being performed at a number of universities and national laboratories in the United States and elsewhere.