Banning Killer Robotic Weapons
August 8, 2019
Robotic weapons that can operate without human direction are nearing reality, and should be banned now because “it’s much harder once they are falling into the wrong hands or becoming an accepted part of the military tool kit,” an Australian expert on artificial intelligence told the New York Times. As part of a larger look at regulating AI applications, two US scholars wrote in Issues that seeking limits on fully autonomous weapons “seems sensible,” going on to propose an overarching AI-enhanced decision-making system to keep many if not all smart technologies in line.