The UN Will Finally Decide In 2017 If Armies Can Use ‘Killer Robots’

[JudgeRightly]

Autonomous robots should never be allowed to make the final choice to pull the trigger on its own. The responsibility should lie on the humans responsible for it.

 

[Arthur Brain]

2016. What a difference a decade makes.

Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them​

We can no longer ignore the growing threat of fully autonomous weapons. The world must either act to ban them or accept that they are the future of war

For years, we have had unconfirmed reports and rumours that AI-controlled weapons have killed soldiers on the battlefield without a human in the loop. Now, we know it has happened.​

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As we report here, the use of autonomous killers in a test exercise marks a watershed in warfare. But we shouldn’t be surprised. The technology has existed for some time and humans have never invented a weapon and then refrained from using it.​

The potential and advances made in AI are scary. Could be looking at a potential 'Skynet' before long...