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A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Robots can’t achieve high fives all round without human-like hands, tactile perception, manipulation control, seamless interaction and human reason, experts say.
We give over control of our lives every day and trust other humans to make ethical decisions. But soon robots will make these decisions for us. Will they be ethical or is it just a numbers game?
The Campaign Against Killer Robots has launched a terrifying film showing why lethal drones need to be banned.
Robots are a twin-edged sword. Used badly, they may one day perpetrate genocide and war crimes. Used well, they can prevent them.
Leading experts in AI and robotics want the Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada to join the growing campaign to ban killer robots.
The unexpected behaviour of even simple bots is only going to get more dramatic as AI scales up.
It’s more than 25 years since Arnold Schwarzenegger returned in the Terminator 2: Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now he’s back in glorious 3D, so how does the story and the science stack up today?
He’s back! Any mention of the killer robots debate brings images of the Terminator film. But science fiction can be a useful tool to get people interested in the real issues in science.
Not everyone agrees on how artificial intelligence will change the way we live. But it’s not all doom and gloom either.
He spends his days developing artificial intelligence systems. What about AI keeps him up at night?
Treaties banning biological and chemical weapons are in place, and the path is clear to remove nuclear weapons too. Lethal autonomous weapons (killer robots) should be next.
Machines that can target and kill people without human intervention or accountability pose a moral threat to the world.
The future of warfare may include many lethal autonomous weapons, but the world can’t decide how, or if, to regulate them.
We need to ban lethal autonomous weapons, or “killer robots”, as we have done with biological weapons, land mines and blinding lasers, and Australia should take a leading role in making that happen.
When it comes to weapons with artificial intelligence, there’s an argument for keeping a human in charge of some of the action.
2015 was a year where we expanded our view of the universe, embraced new technologies and got a hint of the profound changes to come.
There is much debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence machines that are designed to kill. But who’s responsible when a non-lethal AI system causes damage, harm or even death?
Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
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Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer on Law and Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Canterbury
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Sociology; Geary Fellow, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
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Adjunct Research Fellow of The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Lecturer in Cyber Security, UNSW Sydney
