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Artificial intelligence experts have come together at the World Economic Forum in
Davos to discuss the future – or lack of – for autonomous killer robots.
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Despite calls for a ban made by people like Tesla’s Elon Musk last year, Sir Roger
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Carr, the chairman of British weapons manufacturer BAE, said that 40 countries are
currently working on this tech, including the United States.
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The US is the leader in this field, Carr said, despite the fact that it is the only country
in the world that has banned their use, if only for a decade starting in 2012.
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technology and said there isn’t even an accepted definition of what a killer robot, or
“autonomous weapon” really is.

Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and one of the
signatories of the open letter last year calling for a ban, said that within 18 months
to two years: “If humans choose to give the instruction to wipe out all males in a
certain city, they can do that.”

Although not governed by a specific law, all of the panelists agreed that giving the
decision to kill to a robot would break the conventions of war.

The audience at Davos and beyond was polled during the chat about their views on
autonomous killer bots.

People were more likely to be in favor of sending robots to die instead of their own
sons or daughters, but were less likely to want their enemy to send killer robots
hunting for them.

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Kirsty Styles a.k.a. kirstystyles

Kirsty Styles is a journalist who lives in Hackney. She was previously editor at Tech City
News and is now a reporter at The Next Web. She loves tech for good, cleantech,
edtech, assistive tech, politech (?), diversity in tech.

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