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AT: ! Super SoldiersNuking Russia doesn’t solve – everyone’s doing it, including us – but losing the race isn’t bad, it’s the only way to make the tech safe, solving their impactPappalardo 18 (Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, “Short-Term Superhuman: If We Create Augmented Soldiers, Can We Turn Them Back?” 9-25-2018, https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a23457329/augmented-super-soldiers-reversible/)//KMM The coming issues with human enhancement will ripple across the military and society. The only way to avoid these problems seems to be to make sure the techniques are safe for soldiers and reversible after they are discharged. Last year, three Canadian defense researchers published a paper that explored the intersection of human enhancement and ethics. They found that the permanence of the enhancement could have impacts on troops in the field (“will unequal distribution of the technology between soldiers cause tension and lead to dysfunction?”) as well as a return to civilian life (“a permanent technology give a veteran an unfair advantage or disadvantage at finding employment?”) They also note that “many soldier resilience human enhancement technologies raised health and safety questions.” These problems would ease when an enhancement is temporary: A soldier can train to use an exoskeleton and a temporary chemical boost wouldn’t carry into civilian life. Or would they? A soldier could follow an order to take an enhancement that is considered temporary but in reality has unexpected problems. The Canadian researchers wrote: “Are there unknown side effects or long term effects that could lead to unanticipated health problems during deployment or after discharge? Moreover, is it ethical to force a soldier to use the technology in question, or should he/she be allowed to consent to its use? Can consent be fully free from coercion in the military?” The Augmentation Arms Race Is Coming The Pentagon’s desire for reversible human augmentations over potentially irreversible ones will favor some technologies winning out over others. Exoskeletons over implants, for example. But that doesn’t mean strange-sounding body hacks won’t find their place at the Pentagon. For example, the military is obsessed with new ways to improve training, and whether soldiers’ brains can be stimulated to learn skills more quickly. A 2018 report from this year’s Mad Scientist conference, a future tech conference run by the U.S. Army, states that “there are studies being conducted that explore the possibility of directly emulating those expert brain states with non-invasive EEG caps that could improve performance almost immediately.” In other words, the term “thinking cap” is about to become more literal. There’s common worry in the defense world that casts a shadow over human enhancement: Will America’s ethics be its downfall, dooming the U.S. to second place in the super-soldier arms race? After all, totalitarian regimes do not have many ethical limits or transparent media to report on experiments. Gene editing equipment has drown drastically cheaper and easier to use in recent years, putting those tools within reach of well-funded non-government actors such as terrorist groups and drug cartels. As one U.S. Navy report in 2015 noted: “Major ethical concerns about the voluntary and reversible nature of such augmentations mean that it is more likely these enhancements will first gain traction in state and non-state forces that do not place as much weight on ethical concerns as our own.” Every medical advance is now eyed for augmentation potential, and not just in the United States. Rogue regimes, terrorist camps, and drug cartels don’t read papers that have phrases “potential ethical issues,” “ policy modifications,” or “ethical assessments.” In the future, U.S. forces may find themselves on the lagging side of the human augmentation. And they may be happy for it. Download 0.83 Mb. Share with your friends:
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