Killer robots: Tech experts warn against AI arms race

[Hotspring 44]

Killer robots: Tech experts warn against AI arms race

The article starts with:

”More than 1,000 tech experts, scientists and researchers have written a letter warning about the dangers of autonomous weapons.

In the latest outcry over "killer robots", the letter warns that "a military AI [artificial intelligence] arms race is a bad idea".

Among the signatories are scientist Stephen Hawking, entrepreneur Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

The letter will be presented at an international AI conference today.

"Killer robots" are currently the subject of much debate and have recently been discussed by committees at the United Nations, which is considering the potential for a ban on certain types of autonomous weapons.

Now, the experts have called for a specific ban on the use of artificial intelligence to manage weapons that would be "beyond meaningful human control".

The rest of the article is @:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33686581

But it may already be too late!:
Related to this subject matter is a chilling interview with a journalist who claims to have knowledge of such already existing program that is well established and well on the way to being deployed with so-called trial runs here in USA:
https://www.waccobb.net/forums/showt...879#post193879