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Artificial Incompetence (Timeline 2020-2500)

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Our biggest fear was that robots would turn on their masters. No one anticipated that

they’d turn on themselves. In less time that it took to build these machines people had

found ways to fool them. Automated warfare had become a joke. It was much easier to beam

mis-information at a robot and save the bullet. In our last armed conflict the military

strategists were taught a lesson, we cannot anticipate everything so how could be build

machines who can? But did they learn? No, their solution was to try and build them

smarter. What they missed is that killer androids did not have the ability to physically

adapt to the world around them. These machines would break down in the jungles, would

overheat in the deserts and get trapped in the swamps. In fact, they were better suited

to border patrols on the Homefront and in far regular climates. Machines are only as good

as the people behind them. Are we too arrogant to face this fact?
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TLFinch's avatar
At this point in time incompetence reins supreme. Nicely penned.