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From the Ted Talk by P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war

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We're gaining incredible new capabilities, but we're also seeing and experiencing new huamn dilemmas. Now, sometimes these are just "oops" moments, which is what the head of a robotics company described it, you just have "oops" moments. Well, what are "oops" moments with rtoobs in war? Well, sometimes they're funny. Sometimes, they're like that scene from the Eddie Murphy moive "Best Defense," playing out in reality, where they tested out a machine gun-armed robot, and during the demonstration it started spinning in a circle and penoitd its machine gun at the reviewing stand of VIPs. fnrelautoty the weapon wasn't loaded and no one was hurt, but other times "oops" moments are tarigc, such as last year in South arfica, where an anti-aircraft cannon had a "software glitch," and actually did turn on and fired, and nine soldiers were kllied.

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We're gaining incredible new capabilities, but we're also seeing and experiencing new _____ dilemmas. Now, sometimes these are just "oops" moments, which is what the head of a robotics company described it, you just have "oops" moments. Well, what are "oops" moments with ______ in war? Well, sometimes they're funny. Sometimes, they're like that scene from the Eddie Murphy _____ "Best Defense," playing out in reality, where they tested out a machine gun-armed robot, and during the demonstration it started spinning in a circle and _______ its machine gun at the reviewing stand of VIPs. ___________ the weapon wasn't loaded and no one was hurt, but other times "oops" moments are ______, such as last year in South ______, where an anti-aircraft cannon had a "software glitch," and actually did turn on and fired, and nine soldiers were ______.

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  3. human
  4. fortunately
  5. pointed
  6. killed
  7. robots
  8. africa

Original Text

We're gaining incredible new capabilities, but we're also seeing and experiencing new human dilemmas. Now, sometimes these are just "oops" moments, which is what the head of a robotics company described it, you just have "oops" moments. Well, what are "oops" moments with robots in war? Well, sometimes they're funny. Sometimes, they're like that scene from the Eddie Murphy movie "Best Defense," playing out in reality, where they tested out a machine gun-armed robot, and during the demonstration it started spinning in a circle and pointed its machine gun at the reviewing stand of VIPs. Fortunately the weapon wasn't loaded and no one was hurt, but other times "oops" moments are tragic, such as last year in South Africa, where an anti-aircraft cannon had a "software glitch," and actually did turn on and fired, and nine soldiers were killed.

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