Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on ...

Geoffrey Hinton says killer robots and drones are lowering the human cost of war — and making conflicts easier to start.

Robots with Guns: The Rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems An August 2017 letter to the U.N. signed by Elon Musk and other tech luminaries called autonomous weaponry a "Pandora's Box." Are killer ...

Military robots equipped with artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons raise a major question: can they respect human values? Inspired by Isaac Asimov's laws, an American program explores ...

AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton warns that killer robots could make wars easier to start by lowering the human cost of conflict. However the advanced technology he suggests will make the wars more lethal ...

Killer robots are not a fantasy. The world must reject and block these weapons. These autonomous weapons are not science fiction, they're an existential threat. Public pressure is the key to an ...

Beyond the already deployed human-controlled drone fleets, military engineers are already tinkering with lethal AI-driven autonomous battlefield bots.

A former Google software engineer is sounding the alarm on killer robots. Laura Nolan resigned from Google last year when the tech giant started working with the U.S. military on drone technology ...

The discussion of operational or military aspects relating to autonomous weapons saw many questions relating to cost, the adequacy of the military’s traditional command-and-control structure to ...

Autonomous weapon systems are robots with lethal weapons that can operate independently, selecting and attacking targets without a human weighing in on those decisions.