Researchers Take Stand Against AI Weapons
July 22, 2018
At an international conference on artificial intelligence (AI), numerous researchers signed a pledge to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons.” This accords with a recent examination in Issues of when and how AI writ large should be regulated, which found reason for limiting “the development of autonomous weapons that employ AI to decide when to fire, with how much force to apply, and on what targets,” but added that this would best be done as part of a broader public discussion of “the policy measures and cultural changes that will be needed to negotiate the coming transformation into an AI-rich world.”