patrick tucker, editor at large in magazine the futureist, which we worry? >> robots can become more dangerous, as we ask them to do more and more things. and i think that armed drones actually presents a great opportunity to talk about that. we think of drones now as they flyover foreign countries, they do the work of our military, and they decrease cost of military involvement but by the year, en of year 2015 we'll have 30,000 drones, they are unarmed but circleing over u.s. and doing work of police department, and survey length. are they capable of ain't social behavior? of executeing tasks that have a cost to human life and health, i think absolutely. john: what do you mean? i could of them as operated by people. >> drones right now are operated by people, a key interest of military right now, is incremently increasing the level of autonomy in these systems, that is a huge cost safer for them, the more they do -- their own less it costs to run them, we're making them more and more capable, and -- >> as with computer watson, soon started teaching itself.

. >> well, joining me now is technology editor patrick tucker. patrick, with a welcome to you. real estate contractor who later apologized to this woman saying the drone was just shooting property. of course she was worried he was going to catch pictures of her changing and the like. with all the new drones in the air, how will our privacy and our air be affected? >> we're not quite sure yet. there are laws that prohibit peeping tom activity as we understand using tellscopic lens and things like that. but drones increase the ability to take pictures. it's what they are for. the faa has said the use of drones for commercial photography is prohibited. it hasn't distinguished the difference between a drone and model plane. and it doesn't regulate the use of toy planes. this has become a big issue. in 2011, ralph parker was fined by the faa for taking pictures under contract. and very recently, a couple months ago in march, the national transportation safety board threw out the fine and said hey, faa, you don't know the difference between a model plane and drone so you can't bar ra

patrick tucker is editor at large of the magazine "the futurist." shoed we worry? >> robots can become much more dangerous. they become more dangerous as we ask them to do more and more things and we are not exactly sure what those things are. armed drones present a great opportunity to talk about that. we think of drones as things that fly over coforeign countri. they decrease the cost of military development. by the year 2017 they will be doing the work of police departments doing surveillance. are they capable of anti social behavior? are they capable of executing tasks that have a cost to human life and health. the answer is absolutely. >> i think of these things as operated people. >> drones right now are operated people, but one of the key interests of the military right now is incrementally increasing the level of autonomy in these systems. that is a huge cost saver for them. the more they can do on their own the less it costs to run them. we are incrementally making them more and more capable ie more and mora ton -- mora ton mouse. >> the computer watson is

earlier are i talkeded with patrick tucker.what he had to say about all this. >> they've come out and they've said that the recent faa announcement probably is not going to affect their ability to deliver packages with these flights. the faa would disagree and say right now commercial drones are still highly regulated. saying right now commercial drone delivery is still something that's highly regulated, in order to use one of these things commercially, you have to have a pilot's license, a drone should be certified. there's a wide number of issues that we just don't have nailed down yet, and i think you'll see a lot more lawsuits like the ones involving parker, where people are figures out what's a drone, what's commercial. >> there's been like 15 reported near miss incidents around airports, notably, la guardia and lax over the past couple of years. >> this is increasingly urgent issue for the faa. this is part of the reason why they've been mandated to come out with new rules guiding how drones fit into civilian airspace. re