Just to make this clear, in case you haven't caught on yet:

We, as a culture, as a society, don't give a fuck about "Human Life".

We care about PROFIT.

Nothing else.

Once you grasp that, there are many other things you'll start to understand...

Like how we could develop autonomous killing machines that could wipe out mankind... as long as there's a profit in it.

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.

“They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain’s Royal United Services Institute.

Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world — from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones — can already identify and lock onto targets without human help.

There are more than 4,000 US military robots on the ground in Iraq, as well as unmanned aircraft that have clocked hundreds of thousands of flight hours. [link]