Amnestic said:
You intend to blanket the planet with an EMP pulse? That'll probably have a few negative effects on humans as well, dontcha think? Besides, aren't there countermeasures/hiding under the ground?
Oh you mean NORAD? And E.M.P. immune devices?
If any military was to make something that is capable of self awareness and advanced thinking, I believe it would be more of a safety precaution to make it vulnerable to E.M.P. Also, the self aware A.I. won't be the ones hiding underground.
There's a significant flaw with any fully A.I. controlled war machine. That flaw is that anyone can disable it, reprogram it and start it up again. There is definitely some A.I. assisted machines out there, mainly the Stealth Fighter and Bombers both use a significant amount of computer power to maintain stable flight. The UAV is able to fly on its own, except it cannot choose a course or destination, it is given commands remotely, or flown remotely.
Also, if we blanket the world with an E.M.P. pulse we can make a full recovery in a matter of a few years. Many of our devices today would definitely be shut down by the E.M.P. but the simple solution to this is to literally cut power on a global scale before initiating the E.M.P.. Doing so prevents damage to circuitry and guarantees a faster recovery, this would greatly reduce recovery time down to maybe a month. Small price to pay when you have a mechanical apocalypse on your hands.
Should anyone be dumb enough to create a self-aware, E.M.P. proof killing machine, then we'd have a predicament on our hands. But in reality, unless we were dumb enough to put our entire nuclear arsenal in the control of some computer (rofl) the situation would be contained before it got serious.
