Scientists, tech leaders want to stop 'killer robots'

Scientists, tech leaders want to stop 'killer robots'

Sydney, Aug 21: Scientists and prominent tech leaders have called for the United tions (UN) to take action to stop the proliferation of “killer robots.”

At the Intertiol Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Melbourne on Monday, technology leaders from around the world congregated at the event, first held in 1969, and requested that the development of weaponry using artificial intelligence (AI) be halted as “once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.” As part of this open letter to the UN, the scientists and business leaders, including world-renowned AI expert Toby Walsh, Elon Musk of Tesla and James Chow of Chi’s UBTECH, called for the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or killer robots, to be outlawed much in the same way as chemical and biological weapons on the battlefield.

“Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations,” Xinhua cited the letter as saying. Signed by several of the world’s top AI minds, the letter was spearheaded by Walsh, a professor in AI at the University of New South Wales, who told Xinhua that he was concerned with what he felt was an “arms race” occurring around the world. (IANS)

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