"What Science Fiction Movie Inspires The 'Wonks' ..." Topic

…At The Pentagon?.

""When most people when they hear me talk about this, they immediately start to think of think of Skynet and Terminator," said the deputy secretary of defense. "I think more in terms of Iron Man." The Pentagon wants artificial intelligence, said Bob Work, but it doesn't want "killer robots that roam the battlefield" without human control.

Instead, Work said told an Atlantic Council conference, citing half-a-dozen science fiction stories from Iron Man to Stark Trek to Ender's Game, the goal is something like the JARVIS software that runs Tony Stark's fictional super-suit: "a machine to assist a human where the human is still in control in all matters, in all matters, but the machine makes the human much more powerful and much more capable."…"
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Armand

Or it could be more akin to HAL 9000.

"a machine to assist a human where the human is still in control in all matters, in all matters, but the machine makes the human much more powerful and much more capable."

Clearly what the Deputy SecDef wants is a freakin' BOLO.

according to William Shatner

it was….

William Shatner
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"Stark Ttek", typo or am I missing something? Now, is it right to support a military-industrial-complex that embraces technologies which would tap into the 'agile' and adaptable minds of children to make smarter and better weapons? Weaponizing children seems repugnant to me regardless of whether it is a child in a suicide-vest or Ender in Orson Scott-Card's imagination. Tony Stark is a manic and homicidal entrepreneur who breaks national and international law regularly and indulges in orgies of killing and destruction with alarming frequency. Gene Roddenberry envisioned a universe which was trying to move beyond war and exploitation to a better future. I am not so sure he would embrace the enthusiasm that the Pentagon planners have for his version of future technology. Of course if it truly is "Stark Trek" then I guess Roddenberry's moral universe is just shoved aside for a bigger, better bang. Does this report indicate that at the centre of Pentagon planning lurk psychotic sociopaths grasping at any cultural straw which could legitimize their homicidal predispositions and which enables their lethal fantasies at the expense of billions and soon trillions of tax dollars. When fantasy meets reality, who are the monsters in this story, I wonder?
Rod Robertson.

I just want to point out that Orson Scott Card also found the idea of using child soldiers morally repugnant and that was basically the entire point of the series.*

Balthazar Marduk:
Your point is well made. I only ever read the short story of Ender's Game way back in the day and therefore had no real knowledge of Mr. Scott-Card's feelings on the matter. However, there is still a problem, if his writings inspire the weaponization of children by weapon designers. It is not his problem as he is free to write whatever fiction he wishes. It is our whole society's problem and we must somehow deal with it. Thank you for the clarification on this.
Cheers.
Rod Robertson