GOOGLE BUILDING ARMY OF KILLER ROBOTS
By Naven Jones, Freelance Investigative Journalist
Google's alleged motto is "Don't be evil." They would have us
believe that they are the good guys, and don't intend to do any harm. I don't
believe this hollow slogan. They must be saying that with
fingers crossed behind their backs, as a recent patent filing reveals a plot
that is evil on par with any Hollywood or comic book madman, hell-bent
on world domination.
U.S Patent 9,008,839 B1 dated 14 April, 2015 describes an
army of robots controlled by the cloud. This patent was granted only a few weeks
after another that would allow robots to possess individual artificial
personalities according to a controller's designs. Google has been obsessed with
robotics in recent years, buying out companies like
Boston Dynamics, the makers of the BigDog and Atlas robots, and any patent they can find related to robots. Google has
even started a program where inventors who want to sell their patents can easily
pitch them called the
patent purchase promotion.
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy says "Google is
building a stash of patents, like an arms dealer collects weapons." This quote
is very telling. Anyone who can read between the lines is bound to suspect that
Google has become part of the military-industrial complex, and wants to fulfill
military dreams of a soldier who never needs to sleep, never gets hungry, and
doesn't have to be paid wages. If their army of robots ever does come into
being, it might only be a matter of time before they decide that all humans, not
just the ones their supposed masters aim them at, are the enemy. There is a name
for the cloud controlled robot army Google would assemble:
Terminators.
Right now, the closest thing the military has to that are drones, and even
drones require a human pilot. Imagine if that pilot were gone, and a cold
soulless machine decided when to open fire or drop a bomb. Can a series of
zeroes and ones have a conscience? Imagine drone tanks, drone ships, drone
submarines. These too would be killer robots that could be run with Google's
cloud technology.
You may ask, "What if you are over-reacting, and Google's goals have nothing
to do with the military?" There are still terrible possibilities. Any task that
requires physical labor can be done by machines instead of people. Imagine all
the people who could be put out of work. Thousands could be left with nothing
because a robot took away their livelihood. With no income, many will end up
homeless, hopeless and helpless. Corporations and their rich, powerful overlords
will not care. They will laugh all the way to the bank.
All attempts to get more information
directly from Google about their plans with robotics have failed. They refuse to
talk about it, giving not only me but every journalist who has attempted to
contact them the silent treatment. What more proof should
anyone need that they have something to hide?
