"S. M. Stirling - Terminator 3 - T2 The Future War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stirling S. M)

MILITARY PUTS UNPRECEDENTED POWER IN THE
HANDS OF A COMPUTER

A jolt of fear chilled his stomach for an instant. Their eyes
met. He forced himself to give his mother a crooked smile.

"That's badly phrased, isn't it? Computers don't have hands."

Sarah frowned at him, then continued reading:

"'Dateline Washington, D.C" She cleared her throat. '"The
Joint Chiefs of Staff are enthusiastically supporting a new
computer program named Skynet, which was designed to control
all of the nation's nuclear weapons.

" 'It's highly unusual for all of the branches of the service to be
in such complete agreement,'" said General Ho, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs. " 'That alone ought to tell you what we think of this
program.'

" 'During a lengthy testing period, now drawing to a close, the
Skynet program was reported to have outthought and
outperformed humans every time.

" 'This is as close to an AI [artificial intelligence] as we're
likely to get for some time,' General Ho enthused. " 'We are
standing at the dawn of a new age of military technology. We
would be foolish not to grasp this opportunity with both hands.'
"

" 'His comment was made, apparently, in answer to objections
from some Luddite senators who had protested that placing the
fate of the nation in the hands of a machine was the height of
foolishness.' "

"Mom," John said, "you've made your point. No more, huh?"

Sarah let out an exasperated breath and stared at him. He
looked away and went back to sweeping up hog bristles.

"John!" she said. He seemed to ignore her. Frowning, she
tried again. "John, this could be it. This could be how it starts."

He stopped sweeping and stood looking off into the woods, his
hands on the broomstick showing white around the knuckles.
 "John?" she said.

"Show a little faith, why don't you?" he asked through his
teeth. His voice was low and gruff, almost a growl.