Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban on killer robots

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40 points·lukaa··7 comments

I'm afraid history has shown that once the cat is out of the bag someone will use it and other countries will follow suit. And the cats already out of the bag because the technology that allows autonomous cars, civil/industrial robots, drones, and face recognition programs to work just need to be combined and modified to make "killer robots".

Would this include remote operated stuff like the predator drones?

Current drones were humans are involved in making decisions are not included:

"Autonomous weapons select and engage targets without human intervention. They might include, for example, armed quadcopters that can search for and eliminate people meeting certain pre-defined criteria, but do not include cruise missiles or remotely piloted drones for which humans make all targeting decisions." [1]

[1] https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/

An argument against would be that something like a killer drone with face recognition could take out terrorist leaders with less collateral damage than the usual bombs / missiles.

Ethically a human should do it to another human.

How is that ethical? You are now harming two people, one by mental trauma who is presumably innocent, to reach the same goal you could have reached by sending in a UAV.

WW3 is going to be a real bitch.

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