AI Weapons

  In the same way that the call to halt global warming is being fundamentally ignored, I would expect this warning to be duly noted then turned to boot fodder. I can already see the military expert boot marks on the trampled paper.

  This is how it works. The problem resulting from AI weaponry has to get to a threshold where the globe is literally on the precipice of destruction, then we have emergency U.N. meetings by political operatives hashing out the details on a global treaty. Of course by that time the damage is in place and another check on the human extinction list is drawn.

Guardian UK: Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons - More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race

“The endpoint of this technological trajectory is obvious: autonomous weapons will become the Kalashnikovs of tomorrow. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting..."