Last week the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) was looking to push through a new draft policy for the agency.…
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If you’ve been paying attention to alarmist outcries in recent years, you might have encountered the term ‘killer robots’. These…
You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical…
It was only a matter of time before someone put a gun on a robot quadruped. Unexpectedly, the first real…
Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year,…
Last year, according to a United Nations report published in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using “lethal autonomous weapons…
From self-driving cars, to digital assistants, artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming an integral technology in our lives today. But this same technology…
Robotics is rapidly being transformed by advances in artificial intelligence. And the benefits are widespread: We are seeing safer vehicles with the ability to automatically brake in an emergency, robotic arms transforming factory lines that were once offshored and new robots that can do everything from shop for groceries to deliver prescription drugs to people who have trouble doing it themselves.
Humans will always make the final decision on whether armed robots can shoot, according to a statement by the US Department of…