Sci-fi author Logan Streondj may have the world on its edge after he warned that robots and military drones would fuel a future war similar to the one seen in Terminator.
Streondj is predicting a robot uprising by 2040.
‘The most likely time-frame for an artilect war style conflict would be between 2040 and 2055, he wrote in a blog post.
‘Intuitively it would seem to be around the time when there are as many or more robots than homo-sapiens on the planet, at which point there may be enough sufficiently intelligent robots to demand a space for themselves.’‘This may add more fuel to a global war fire that may ignite in the 2040’s or 50’s.’
In 2014, around 11,000 military robots were produced according to the International Federation of Robotics— though numbers may be higher for classified robots.
‘With a growth rate around 13%, we could expect at least 230 thousand military robots being produced a year in 2040, and by 2053 there may be nearly a million produced each year, by comparison the American Military has half a million active personnel, and about a million in total,’ the author said.
According to the reports — the world would need to produce about seven times more robots per year than humans — for such ridiculousness to happen by 2050.