Tuesday, August 20, 2019

U.N. Efforts To Ban 'Killer Robots' Through International Law Will Fail


DW: UN impasse could mean killer robots escape regulation

It's no longer the stuff of science fiction: Wars could soon be decided by lethal autonomous weapons systems. But a concerted effort to ban "killer robots" through international law at the UN appears to have hit a wall.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has labeled autonomous weapons "politically unacceptable and morally repulsive," and called for them to be banned under international law. "Consider the consequences if an autonomous weapons system can independently select people as targets and attack them," Guterres has repeatedly told the international community, whose representatives are currently debating a ban on so-called killer robots in Geneva. Agreement, however, is not in sight. In fact, as one of the participants told DW, the talks are making no progress.

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WNU Editor: The genie is out of the bottle. Autonomous weapons are the future, and nothing is going to stop it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just think Soros could rule the world.

Anonymous said...

LOL

we all saw this coming year, if not decades ago. big fail :D

Reporter: "so, you say mankind could have been saved from all those killer robots if you have had organized earlier??"

SJW: "I feel triiiiiggered if you use the word MAAAAAN in MAAAAANkind. Please don't do that!!!!!"

Reporter: "But the robots will kill you all?!"

SJW: !!!!!! STOP IT!!!! We call them alternative life forms!!!! Don't call them the R word!!!!!

Reporter: Robots??

SJW throws hot coffee into reporters face and then storms out the building and gets shot in the face by the alternative life forms


2019.
:D

Unknown said...

Lol

Bob Huntley said...

Does anyone really think the AI stuff would/could be any less impartial to the life of innocents than humans? I suppose it all depends on the programming, human and machine programming that is.