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Ban Killer Robots before They Become Weapons of Mass Destruction
Last week the Future of Life Institute released a letter signed by some 1,500 artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and technology researchers. Among them were celebrities of science and the technology industry—Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak—along with public intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and Daniel Dennett. The letter called for an international ban on offensive autonomous weapons, which could target and fire weapons without meaningful human control.
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At one time I did some research into war crimes which, I concluded, result from human emotion and the madness induced by all the stink, fear, noise, anger and total general sensory overload of war. This is when villagers die, civilians are slaughtered, and so on. The notion of an absolutely dispassionate robot soldier programed to avoid civilian casualties is, to me an excellent idea. The human feelings most say will be missing are exactly what needs to be gotten rid of.