Above is an image of Robot Janus. Janus was a Roman god who guarded entrances. That god was also the god of beginning. And Janus was the god of the end. Janus was the god of changes, like the god of beginning years. The remarkable detail in Janus was two faces. When another face smiles, the other face grimaces. His two faces represent vigilance and the ability to see both forward and backward. They can also symbolize good and evil, or the transitions between war and peace.
Man-shaped combat and surveillance robots can already be true.
In 1984, James Cameron introduced Terminator, the killer robot that was eliminating enemies of the Skynet computer. In that time, the Terminator was the Sci-Fi tool that could not be dangerous. But things like large language models, LLMs that control robots, can turn Terminators into reality. The Terminator is one of the examples of what militarized AI can do, if it controls robots. When we talk about risks of AI, we always forget that in the cases of militarized AI, the AI is meant to harm people. When AI-controlled robots operate on the battlefield, that system is made for harming people on purpose.
And that causes risks. The human-shaped robots that work in warehouses are things that might look cute. The problem is that human-shaped robots can operate with every tool that humans can. That means the same robot that operates in warehouses can also operate on battlefields. Another thing that can be interesting about the human-shaped robots is law enforcement. The law enforcement might want to use AI-controlled robots for cover-up missions like intercepting criminal organizations. Those robots will not change their sides.
The robot can look like a mannequin. That system can stand in the window and wait for something to happen. When the system sees risky things, the robot can activate its combat mode. The problem is that the robot doesn’t think. Those security androids follow their programs. And in the cases of the robots, it is possible that somebody, like hostile hackers, can rig the operating system. That means when that kind of robot sees things like a targeted person, that kind of robot can attack that person immediately. And that is the risk in robotics. In the wrong hands, those systems are not toys.
Robots don’t rebel. People rebel. That means it’s possible that some hostile actor buys warehouse robots and puts them to make crimes, like acting as assassins. The human-shaped robot can act as a surgeon, gardener, or security guard. But the same system can act as an illegal actor. The robot can have so-called ghost- or shadow protocol. The shadow protocol, or shadow program, means that there are people who are targeted by robots. When a robot recognizes the targeted person, it can make an attack. And those things might look like accidents. The warehouse robot can make a simple mistake and drop some boxes on the targeted person. Or a robot car can push the gas pedal at the wrong moment. When a robot completes its mission, the ghost protocol can be erased.
They can transmit all data that they collect to the police HQ, and that decreases risks of those operations. There is a possibility that people can have a cyborg twin who goes on dangerous missions instead of humans. That kind of system makes scenarios where the system operators can replace a person with a robot. The robot operator can be a real-life skin walker. The system can mimic anything from humans to dogs. And the robot dogs and other robots can be very dangerous tools in the hands of psychological warfare specialists. Those systems can involve things like infra- and ultrasound systems that can be used to transmit subliminal messages to the people. The robot animal can slip past the system that uses ultra- and infrasound at the same time to the enemy camp. That system can deny the enemy sleep.
But robot animals can do many things that humans cannot do. They can observe animals in their natural environment without disturbing them. Robot animals can also search for things like illegal hunting, and they can be used as area surveillance tools. But the problem is that robot animals can handle things that real animals cannot. The thing is that those systems that might look like monkeys can cut the network wires and use weapons.
