Well, Nicholas Carr has an interesting post about how they might be made slightly less fearsome (at least to some people), if we could program them to be able to tell people they're supposed to kill from people they're not supposed to kill.
Made into 'ethical warriors,' rather than simply injury-and-death machines.
The need for this arises from the fact that there is potential for extreme fearsomeness as these machines are developed, since it is likely that they will in the foreseeable future be sent into situations in which they will have to act without human oversight.
Can we program them to make distinctions, seek out targets designated as legitimate, and avoid burning women, kids, houses and villages, after being litterbugs?
Despite my inevitable flippant tone, this is not actually that funny. Interesting, though.
Like nature, technology is full of the simultaneously horrifying and cool.
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