Development and use of autonomous weapons crosses a ‘clear moral line’, pioneers in robotics and AI warn Malcolm Turnbull and Justin TrudeauPioneers in robotics and artificial intelligence have called on the Australian and Canadian governments to ban killer robots ahead of a United Nations meeting on weapons this month. We can’t ban killer robots – it’s already too late | Philip Ball Read more“If developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever before, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter to Turnbull states. In August, many of the world’s top robotics and AI scientists called on the United Nations to ban killer robots and so halt the arms race now underway to build autonomous weapons. A ban on autonomous weapons is easier said than done Read more“One programmer would be able to whole control armies of weapons,” said Walsh “They are the perfect weapons to suppress a civilian population. Compared with nuclear weapons, AI-powered weapons are likely to be cheap and simple to make, meaning they could easily find their way onto weapons black markets.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2017 15:56 UTC