09-04-2018 12:35 via theguardian.com

Killer robots: pressure builds for ban as governments meet

Countries spending billions on ‘third revolution in warfare’ as UN debates regulation of AI-powered weaponsThey will be “weapons of terror, used by terrorists and rogue states against civilian populations. Unlike human soldiers, they will follow any orders however evil,” says Toby Walsh, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
“These will be weapons of mass destruction. One programmer and a 3D printer can do what previou
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