Thursday 21 January 2016
Artificial intelligence experts have come together at the World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss the future – or lack of – for autonomous killer robots. Despite calls for a ban made by people like Tesla’s Elon Musk last year, Sir Roger Carr, the chairman of British weapons manufacturer BAE, said that 40 countries are currently working on this tech, including the United States. 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. Angela Kane, the UN’s representative for…
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