Title: AI Researcher Warns Skynet Killer-Robots "Easier To Achieve Than Self-Driving Cars" Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw URL Source:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017- ... sier-achieve-self-driving-cars Published:Nov 16, 2017 Author:Tyler Durden Post Date:2017-11-16 13:24:25 by Horse Keywords:None Views:43
A group of the world’s leading AI researchers and humanitarian organizations are warning about lethal autonomous weapons systems, or killer robots, that select and kill targets without human control.
The group alleges killer robots now exist and the bulk of these technological developments are military funded in UK, China, Israel, Russia, and the United States. Although, fully autonomous weapons systems have not yet been deployed on the battlefield, the action by the group to ban lethal autonomous weapons is a preemptive ban before the technology falls into the wrong hands. The group calls on the citizens of the world to contact their representatives and for countries to work together to form international treaties, before it’s too late.
Member List of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots:
Human Rights Watch
Article 36
International Committee for Robot Arms Control
PAX
Association for Aid and Relief Japan:
Mines Action Canada
Nobel Women’s Initiative
Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs
Seguridad Humana en América Latina y el Caribe (SEHLAC)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Future of Life Institute released a video yesterday titled: Slaughterbots.
The video portrays not to far in the distant future of a military firm unveiling a drone with shaped explosives that can target and kill humans on its own. Further in, the video abruptly changes pace, when bad guys get ahold of the technology and unleash swarms of killer robots onto the streets of Washington, D.C. and various academic institutions.
The video is aggressive and graphic but outlines if the technology was misused it could have severe consequences - such as civilian mass causality events.
Stuart Russell, a world leading AI researcher at the University of California in Berkeley, showed the video above to the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons on Monday. He said, “the technology illustrated in the film is simply an integration of existing capabilities. It is not science fiction. In fact, it is easier to achieve than self-driving cars, which require far higher standards of performance.”
Russell wants a preemptive ban on the technology before it’s too late. He claims the window to halt such technologies is closing and warns that autonomous weapons, such as drones, tanks and automated machine guns are imminent.