Report: Beware of Autonomous Killer Robots
Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch has warned.
The report Losing Humanity - co-produced by Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic - also raises the alarm over the ethics of the looming technology.
Calling them "killer robots", it urges "an international treaty that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons".
Source: New Zealand Herald. Read full article. (link)
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Meh, I would think people may prefer killer autonomous robots to killer people. At least the robot can actually use the excuse of "i was just doing what i was programmed to do".