It is a little bit of a Friday story, but then again homo sapiens can be particularly dim on these things so we believe Mr Musk and fellow technologists are on the right path. It would be interesting to know if any lawyers or law firms have ever drafted anything on the subject.
Here’s the introduction to a report published strangely by OilPrice.com… but then again one really doesn’t need killer robots stomping through your refineries
Tech leader Elon Musk is expanding his influence to include crafting just war policy in a new letter to the United Nations calling for laws to ban the creation and use of killer robots during conflicts.
Musk—one of the major forces behind the artificial intelligence push for self-driving cars—says AI poses a bigger threat than nuclear North Korea, and the development of autonomous weapons “threatens to become the third revolution in warfare”.
Musk isn’t the only tech leader. The letter was co-signed by 115 other experts who believe deadly autonomous weapons will unleash a scale of violence seen only with the use of chemical or biological weapons.
“Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare,” the letter, released to the public on Monday, said. “Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways.”
Full report at http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Elon-Musk-Killer-Robots-Bigger-Threat-Than-Nuclear-North-Korea.html
