Chapter 65: Sharpening the Knife
There should be two levels of concepts that robots threaten humans, one is that labor is gradually replaced by robots, and people will lose their sense of existence and eventually become the walking dead; The second concept is that robots become the product of war or violence, and directly slaughter human beings on battlefields and other places.
Humans may accept the first scenario, but they will definitely not accept the second, and if in the heat of battle, there is a situation where a robot illegally kills someone, then who should be held responsible? The answer is no one.
Lack of accountability means that there is no deterrent to future crimes, no compensation for victims, no social condemnation of perpetrators, and machines have long since begun to act as instruments of war, but before they were used by humans, the risks would be too great if humans would relinquish that control and leave life-and-death decisions to machines.
If a war breaks out one day, and the cold and ruthless robot turns its gun on humans, it is not impossible, and when artificial intelligence has its own consciousness and turns its gun on all humans, what kind of scene should our world be? And human beings hand over the power of life and death to robots, where should the dignity of life go? Is the value of life really understandable by some emotionless machines?
Therefore, even if the Confederation has transformed soldiers and made the human body have built-in alloy armor, it is not ready to apply war robots in the military field, after all, it is better to have guns in the hands of humans themselves.
So when the Confederate government announced that it was a robot race, even the Notre Dame organization did not organize a protest. Because even the Virgin Mary, who is overflowing with excessive love, feels that it is simply terrible for a robot to appear in the form of a race.
After the expulsion of scattered protesters, the entire Confederate Assembly was in a smooth motion, and for many years, almost every decision of the Confederate Assembly took a huge amount of time, and it was not always possible to implement it, because protesters were present at any time.
This time it went smoothly even to many councillors, because there was a group of robots in front of them, at least according to the government, and all the people of the entire Confederacy felt a great threat. And the Confederate government also said that that terrible robot race has come into contact with humans and knows where the human confederacy is.
This makes every human being feel alarmed, and this feeling is very bad. If the people of the Confederate knew that the military had already been defeated once, it was expected that the support of the war would have been smoother.
Of course, it is already very popular now, which does not rule out the efforts of the top five to bring rhythm in secret. None of the true decision-makers in the five administrative regions did not feel the threat of these robot armies. As long as the resources are sufficient, robots can be mass-produced almost indefinitely, so don't look at the number of humans who have 500 billion.
With current technology, 500 billion is not an unattainable number, and with a certain amount of time and technology, the number of robots can be completely equalized.
In a not-so-luxurious conference room, a phantom of holograms is communicating, not the parliamentarians that people see on TV every day, but people in power that many people don't know. These are the real big men of the Confederacy.
"I don't believe it, even if a planet is rich enough in resources, has such a large productivity to consume with us? We can't afford to give those robots too much time to produce the ships at full capacity. ”
"You mean to move into a wartime system? Isn't it too early, the conditions of each administrative region are different, and we can't give an order like the Huaxia Administrative Region, and everyone will bow down to the order. ”
"When is it, is it time to tell the 500 billion people that there will be a referendum? If the turnout is not enough, we will not go to war? Which robots are a threat to humans, and we live peacefully with a bunch of machines? The best thing to do with the machine is to destroy it. Especially if the other party seems to have a sense of self. ”
"Be quiet, gentlemen, war is a must, but the situation varies slightly from place to place. We still have to cooperate, we can't let one administrative region fight on its own, and the other administrative regions will watch, right? ”
"The opinion of the Huaxia Administrative Region is very correct, think about it, if we win quickly, then the wartime system will not have to last long. If we can't win quickly, the threat from bots is even greater than we expected. This would give the population more reason to support the war, and the tensions caused by the wartime system would not matter. So this is simply a false proposition, war must begin, and we must do everything in our power to eliminate the threat to humanity. ”
"If our top five only have strong internal suppression, and the external will be pushed to the end, I believe it will come to an end. Because we've lost the hearts and minds of the people, who can trust us to protect everyone? ”
The others nodded in unison, the people's heart is something that can't be explained or seen, but it's this elusive thing, and it's really important.
"From now on, our subordinate military factories have entered a wartime state, and at the same time, the current public opinion is not enough, send some robots with their appearances, as well as edited clips, and put this public opinion on the top first."
"Good!" Several people nodded slightly, and almost immediately, nearly a hundred planets in the five administrative regions, major factories began to start, and at the same time began to order the recall of reserve members, and methodical preparations for war had begun.
On the other side of the wormhole, the Seth people are also in full swing to prepare for war, and the dwarf planets around the impulse have already set up positions, and the Seth people, who use robots as labor in a large area, far surpass humans in efficiency. War fortresses rise from the dwarf planets, and robots are everywhere.
It has to be said that the advantages of robots in the space environment are incomparable to humans, robots can not breathe, and can be directly exposed to cosmic rays, these are the advantages that carbon-based organisms cannot match, and like humans, they are also sharpening their knives.
Public opinion on the threat of robots is getting louder and louder, and the Confederate Congress is beginning to leak rumors about whether to carry out a general mobilization of the whole society to deal with the threat, although it is just a rumor, but many people know that the general mobilization should start immediately.
Three days after the official order was issued, after the necessary public agitation, the Confederate Congress, which believed that the people could support it, officially issued an order that the entire human confederation should unite to eliminate the deadly threat to the entire human society, and sign the mobilization order.
The humans and Seth people, who are the protagonists, have no idea that they have attracted the attention of other forces.