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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: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Wednesday August 29 2018, @05:55AM (1 child)
I'm not so concerned about mistakes, as I am about there being no moral compass between the tyrant and the trigger. The massacre of millions of civilians may well be intentional.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 29 2018, @06:20AM
as I am about there being no moral compass between the tyrant and the trigger.
I'm more concerned about a tyrant setting those loose without even controlling the trigger because, what the heck, chaos serves his purposes or he has nothing more to lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford