"h+ Magazine conducted a poll of “roboticists, AI workers, SF writers, and other techie types” (the SF writers were David Brin and Vernor Vinge) to see if they thought a “Terminator-like scenario” was possible, and if so, how likely it was. (Via KurzweilAI.net.) Boiling it down (read the whole thing here), the consensus seems to be 1) forget about the time travel; 2) don’t expect a super-intelligent Skynet to spontaneously awaken and start wiping us out (though rather alarmingly, it was generally thought that was just “highly unlikely,” not flat-out impossible); but 3) do expect a future full of robots, both beneficial and warlike–though in the latter case, the intelligence directing them is likely to be humans of a destructive bent, rather than an AI with its own designs on the planet." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

It's highly unlikely until we get a bunch of idiot generals who think that allowing a computer to control our nukes is a good thing. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

You could not program a military robot with the three laws...unless you didn't want it to function at all. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

well, the US do have hand grenade sized emp weapons now, according to slip of info from a high ranking officer in the US military - alphaxion