Experts: Bots Could Herald Third Revolution in Warfare

[frogboy]

A group of world-renowned AI and robotics specialists has urged the UN to prevent these technologies being repurpozed into autonomous weapons, as new research from IOActive claims current industrial and commercial robots could already be considered a major insider threat.

The open letter includes signatories such as Tesla founder Elon Musk and cautions that “lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare.”

It continues:

“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, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways. We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close. We therefore implore the High Contracting Parties to find a way to protect us all from these dangers.”

IOActive principal security consultant, Lucas Apa, told Infosecurity that it’s not just robots in the defense industry that people should be worried about, but the ones in homes and factories.
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[Weebarra]

I read this earlier and it is more than a little alarming, i sincerely hope that the UN (and others) take this seriously, for everyones sake.