U.N. Vote Puts 'Killer Robots' on the Agenda in 2017

[Killerdroid]

Good news, fellow humans: The United Nations has decided to take on killer robots.

At the international Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, 123 participating nations voted to initiate official discussions on the danger of lethal autonomous weapons systems. That's the emerging designation for so-called "killer robots" - weapons controlled by artificial intelligence that can target and strike without human intervention.

If you thought the release of Terminator in 1984 was food for thought, it might just become reality in the future. Frightening? I'd say so. Wouldn't they be better on the battlefield instead of human military personnel who have to go through so much suffering?

I'm sure a few of us here have watched the odd documentary about how the robotic future will aid us mere humans in one way or another. Now what if they are used against mankind instead of doing those mundane chores around the home. Sarah Conner anyone?

U.N. Vote Puts 'Killer Robots' on the Agenda in 2017
https://www.seeker.com/u-n-vote-puts-killer-robots-on-the-agenda-2017-2160370225.html

Killer robots will leave humans 'utterly defenceless' warns professor.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...mans-utterly-defenceless-warns-professor.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...xperts-warn-time-running-stop-AI-weapons.html

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_to_Stop_Killer_Robots

'In July 2015, over 1,000 experts in artificial intelligence signed a letter warning of the threat of an arms race in military artificial intelligence and calling for a ban on autonomous weapons. The letter was presented in Buenos Aires at the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15) and was co-signed by Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Noam Chomsky, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, among others.[6][7]'

 

[Raiderwolf]

Good news, fellow humans: The United Nations has decided to take on killer robots.'

I think killer religions are a much worse threat than autonomous killer robots, which the U.N. is ignoring that a particular killer religion is on the rampage, killing many more people than any robot and is spreading all over the world, especially deep into Europe and aiming to over throw many governments there and institute their own religion principled government. It just goes to show how out of touch and impotent the U.N. has become.

 

[lyra]

now we just need them to take over and then a few thousand years down the line we will have qt androids to kill off the robots

 

[NdMk2o1o]

I think killer religions are a much worse threat than autonomous killer robots, which the U.N. is ignoring that a particular killer religion is on the rampage, killing many more people than any robot and is spreading all over the world, especially deep into Europe and aiming to over throw many governments there and institute their own religion principled government. It just goes to show how out of touch and impotent the U.N. has become.

I completely agree however....... Not the place or the time for politics, completely off topic and of no relevance in this thread...

 

[Killerdroid]

I think killer religions are a much worse threat than autonomous killer robots, which the U.N. is ignoring that a particular killer religion is on the rampage, killing many more people than any robot and is spreading all over the world, especially deep into Europe and aiming to over throw many governments there and institute their own religion principled government. It just goes to show how out of touch and impotent the U.N. has become.

It's a controversial subject. Yes the UN like many others tend to ignore the elephant in the room.

I completely agree however....... Not the place or the time for politics, completely off topic and of no relevance in this thread...

Agreed but politics was bound to come into it. After all it's the politicians running the show and they get to say if these plans are funded for military use.

now we just need them to take over and then a few thousand years down the line we will have qt androids to kill off the robots

I think either nuclear war or disease will kill off most of the human race in the near future. If these bots don't make it to the production line in the next 25 years that is.

 

[Killerdroid]

Check out the krieg-und-spiele trailer. http://www.realfictionfilme.de/filme/krieg-und-spiele/
I'm not sure when it''ll be fully available online.
I've seen the full documentary on TV. It raises some serious questions about the use of AI.