Experts warn against 'killer robots' that could decide whether people live or die

Hundreds of artificial intelligence experts have urged the Canadian and Australian governments to ban “killer robots”. They say that delegating life-or-death decisions to machines crosses “a clear moral line”, and that the development of autonomous weapons will result in machines, rather than people, deciding who lives and who dies. Such systems, including drones, military robots and unmanned vehicles, should be treated in the same way as chemical weapons, biological weapons and nuclear weapons, they say.

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