[adamio]

Isn't this a nuclear weapon vs nuclear power type issue? We'll always have the capacity for evil, I'd expect an international ban on the use of robotic soliders after some period of mass destruction (we'll still have them sitting in a bunker just in case)

[Lambdanaut]

I don't think so. I don't see them being as destructive as that. I think by the time they get to a level that's bannable, there will be far greater warfare threats, like millions of inch-long artificially intelligent flying swarm syringes(OF DEATH) filled with arsenic.

I think they'll be far more useful as support units.

[adamio]

Good point, These Darpa terminators are just the visible threat, its the classified nano robots that control us from inside that we should fear

[Lambdanaut]

I think you're joking, but what you just said would make a great parody of the nuts over in that other thread that are hypothesizing that the NSA is possibly keeping 5D glass hard drive technology a secret from us.

[MrBra]

classified nanorobot technology is no joke.

[eli_gottlieb]

I certainly hope not! They're going to need it when Cyber-Cthulhu gets loose.

[lukifer]

The difference is that nuclear weapons are indiscriminate, whereas robotic soldiers can theoretically limit targets only to evildoers (or dissidents, undesirables, etc).