I’ve seen far too many bugs to think that combining software with high explosive cannons is anything but a fundamentally risky idea:
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South African National Defence Force “is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday.
Apocalyptic techno-heretics anticipate the Singularity, but this incident demonstrates that it’s not necessarily going to be the wondrous event that the apotheosans imagine.