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Inside the United Nations' effort to regulate autonomous killer robots
Amandeep Gill has a difficult job, though he won't admit it himself. As chair of the United Nations' Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on lethal autonomous weapons, he has the task of shepherding 125 member states through discussions on the thorny technical and ethical issue of "killer robots" — military robots that could theoretically engage targets independently. It's a subject that has attracted a glaring media spotlight and pressure from NGOs like Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which is backed by Tesla's Elon Musk and Alphabet's Mustafa Suleyman, to ban such machines outright.
[...] The CCW will meet for the third time for discussions on lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs), from August 27th through 31st, after which it will likely issue a report and decide upon continuing discussions next year. The Verge spoke to Gill about Hollywood depictions of dangerous machines, weapons that already exist or are in development, and a potential ban on killer robots.
Also at CBS.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:43AM (2 children)
Maybe there's a crossover point where the productive man hours saved by not having workers drive themselves outweigh an increase in deaths caused by autonomous vehicles.
We gotta hit the road!
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday August 31 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)
The evidence so far seems to be that the autonomous vehicles drive more safely than human drivers. At least the well-built and properly tested models are. When we reach the stage of cheap knock-offs, who knows?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 01 2018, @09:06AM
Subject to some serious limitations that make autonomous vehicles nonviable in the real world (such as requiring a skilled driver to take over at a moment's notice and max speeds of around 25-35 MPH).