In the end, the robots will help bring peace...
I had this epiphany about two nights ago. It goes like this: in their greed for market share, major robotics companies are compelled to accept a global robot safety standard. For policy makers, they will be told and asked to contribute to the rules of robot behaviour, the details checked and implemented by geeks. It will have to be transparent, checked across countries, across continents. Robots cannot diverge from programming rules. Robots gain (monitored) responsibility as intelligence increases. Number of opportunistic evil acts and mistakes go to almost zero. Waging war against any nation, and thus against a global network of robots dedicated to ensuring safety becomes futile.
I haven't had time to think and find the weak point in the argument, but it seems somewhat compelling.
