Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aiva!ken
From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: does AI kill?
Message-ID: <497@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:47:02 GMT
References: <1376@daisy.UUCP> <12400014@iuvax>
Reply-To: ken@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Ken Johnson,E32 SB x212E)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <12400014@iuvax> smythe@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:

> I don't know which event involved the
> Sheffield, but there was no misidentification in either case.

I had also heard the story that the Exocet, having been sold to the
Argentinians by the Europeans, was not identified as a hostile missile. 
Subsequently the computers were `reprogrammed' (media talk for giving
them a wee bit of new data.) Presumably if you sell arms to your enemies
this is what you must expect. 

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