P.W. Singer on Killer Robots

[x-post from my Vox blog]

P.W. Singer, the author of one of the first scholarly works about private military companies (a wonderful, if a bit dry, tome called Corporate Warriors, which I commend to your attention) thinks about war with a depth and clarity that's unique in the field.

Most non-fiction works about military action tend to be concerned largely with the men and women kicking down doors, about tactics, about strategy, about the technology of warfare.

Singer tends to approach war from a macroeconomics standpoint, and the results in his work are often devastatingly intelligent and terrifyingly plausible.

Here, Singer talks about the rise of robotics in warfare, and warfare for the YouTube generation. (Among other things, he references a jihadi website wherein one can login and detonate IEDs in Iraq remotely.)

Terrific video, and scary as hell.