Terminators (Autonomous AI systems) in real life; should they be banned?

Of course this summer saw the release of the terminator movie. Although I think they are silly in many ways I do think there is some truth to the fact that robots that have an AI that is fully autonomous could spell disaster for mankind. There is not the chance for humans to step in and say "ohh" looks like we made an error in the code that needs to be patched.
I can just imagine if hackers take control of a fully autonomous such as a drone for example by simply tricking it into thinking that civilian targets are enemy troops. The loss of life from this example would be tragic and there may be no way to bring it under control without some other system finding and destroying this rouge system.
What do you think about fully Autonomous systems used in military applications or any applications for that matter?
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Of course this summer saw the release of the terminator movie. Although I think they are silly in many ways I do think there is some truth to the fact that robots that have an AI that is fully autonomous could spell disaster for mankind. There is not the chance for humans to step in and say "ohh" looks like we made an error in the code that needs to be patched.
I can just imagine if hackers take control of a fully autonomous such as a drone for example by simply tricking it into thinking that civilian targets are enemy troops. The loss of life from this example would be tragic and there may be no way to bring it under control without some other system finding and destroying this rouge system.
What do you think about fully Autonomous systems used in military applications or any applications for that matter?
Source article:
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

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    RSA1 is just a front end and all the information you see are all coming from tables which are stored here. go to SE80 or SE11 and search for the tables behind the screens. Every bit of detail that you see is coming from tables or available in tables. There are many tables and they are all relational. So you can pretty much do anything you like in accessing them. Please just read (SELECT) from them. Don't try to delete, insert anything unless you know what you are doing absolutely.
    Hope this helps.
    Good luck with your learning.
    Alex.

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