Who watches the watch-bots?

As I watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (what?), mirroring DARPA's lunacy, I wonder when the 'resistance' will start emerging...

I'm serious - sort of.

There are life-like, swarming, self repairing, self replicating, self governing, 1 million rounds per minute, killer robots out there and some that can pass for human to more people than most politicians. If you said that 20 years ago, people would have said you were mad, because it would / could not ever really happen. Now they'd say you're mad for bothering to worry about it, and stop watching too much YouTube. Right?

Well it won't be long before we see more stories of what happens when they do what they do best, and make Turkey Twizzler meat out of some unsuspecting humans.

Even I think Kurzweil is a little bonkers (in a great way), but he does raise some interesting points about where tech is going. And fast.  

So when do the humans figure out that they should be building robo-cidal androids? Otherwise, if they can kill, and learn faster than we, how do we stop them when they go wrong? Or a little too right (depending on which side you're on at the time)?

We divide and conquer, numb nuts. Its what we always do.

But of course will we even have too? Complexity theory suggests that such behavior would simply emerge. Making us mere onlookers at the grizzly mecha battle of the fittest. Ironically, as once we removed all the beasts of the earth that threatened us, we go build our own, more fearsome monsters.

What next?...