Elon Musk leads fight for ban on killer robots
‘Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at time scales faster than humans can comprehend’
Sydney — Elon Musk is leading demands for a global ban on killer robots, warning technological advances could revolutionise warfare and create new "weapons of terror" that target innocent people. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX joined more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence entrepreneurs in signing a letter to the UN calling for action to prevent the development of autonomous weapons. "Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare," warned the statement signed by 116 tech luminaries, also including Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google’s DeepMind. "Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at time scales faster than humans can comprehend," the letter read. The innovators also highlighted the danger that the technology could fall into the wrong hands. "These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirab...
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