Copyright. by Gina Rydland

Paul Marks, a technology correspondent wrote the article, Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans. He is concerned about how this technology will end up, and rightfully so. The Pentagon looking for contractors able to deliver a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System", should raise some eyebrows.

Future technologies on how to "search for and detect a non-cooperative human” at the present time in the research and development stage, might outdo any of our imaginary ideas. However, it is easy to envision how non-human lifeforms with humanlike intelligence can be used for police operations.

The technical details obscured in such a scenario may give birth to a new generation of intelligence and surveillance operation centers. Consequently the authorities may get unlimited access to real time situations and the capability to directly influence the chain of events.

In the future we may have local police stations equipped to receive live audio and video from artificial entities interacting with humans providing detailed information from the actual scene. Information exchange through a direct "hot-line" between the computer system at the station and an advanced artificial intelligence system operated by military intelligence agencies could prove useful on both sides when needed. The risk of errors causing a faulty assessment of a live situation could lurk inside the robots and the surveillance systems software program, as well as in the hands of the human supervisor able to interfere with the systems actions. Such a scenario would also rule out fully autonomous artificial entities.

Industries are developing implants designed for the human brain which opens a door to a new form of highly intimate interaction between AI and humans. Not only the robots artificial brain could have a "hot-line to the Pentagon", but yours may too.

At the present time most people worry about their privacy using the phone, internet, walking underneath surveillance cameras and using their credit cards. Future worries might be about robots having the ability to see through the walls of your house, a technology already developed, or run a scan of your brain and read your most private thoughts- a few examples of emerging technologies with enormous potentials.

Such systems may provide more safety and security for the public. But it also raise serious questions regarding violation of privacy and the danger of abuse. Are governments, industries and military intelligence agencies trustworthy enough to handle the ability to influence a persons actions? And do we want any authority to have the means to collect and store our most inner thoughts in a databank? Most people would say no.

A police robot equipped with a sophisticated non-invasive brain scanning and communication system without the requirement of the targeted individual having an implant might become the next step. An artificial intelligence with fully functioning read and write capabilities, enabling it to manipulate the brains chemistry, thought process and actions. The robots brain would be connected directly to a military artificial intelligence system able to overrule the robot and target the individual or group in question directly via satellite.

Joint forces world wide to develop and implement such a control and intelligence system would make the industries and countries in collaboration the most powerful entities on earth!