killer robots
There's a Pointless War Being Waged on Killer Robots From the Future
"Fully autonomous weapons" are increasingly under attack by people who want to make them extinct before they even exist. But the whole thing is kind of moot, anyway.
Activists Calling for a Ban on 'Killer Robots' Raise Alarm Over an Uncertain Threat
AI researchers and human rights groups are trying to draw attention to the prospect of advanced weaponry that could one day blanket battlefields and make life and death decisions independent of human direction.
We Need to Start Banning Killer Robots Now, Say NGOs
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is calling on a United Nations group to start taking action.
Or Maybe We Shouldn't Ban Killer Robots
We should probably be arguing about war itself and not hypothetical future war technologies.
Thousands of Scientists Say We Need a Global Ban on Autonomous Weapons
"Warfare is a bloody, horrific, painful thing and it should always be so."
Many of the World's Top Tech Experts Want to Ban Super-Intelligent 'Autonomous Weapons'
Elon Musk, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warn that weaponized artificial intelligence and robotics could spur a deadly and disturbing arms race.
We Spoke to a Researcher Working to Stop AI from Killing Us All
Ben Rubenstein got a $100,000 grant to help him study how machine learning can go wrong.
We Asked a Theoretical Physicist How Time Travel in the Terminator Movies Works
We talked about everything from quantum mechanics to why Arnold has to be naked.
Should We Be Afraid of the Rise of Killer Robots?
Existing unmanned robotics still rely on humans to pull the trigger, but in the future fully autonomous weapon systems could select and execute targets on their own.