Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous...

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous...



Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on warfare AI and autonomous weapons

Via theguardian.com

The authors argue that AI can be used to make the battlefield a safer place for military personnel, but that offensive weapons that operate on their own would lower the threshold of going to battle and result in greater loss of human life.

I get the impression that this is too exaggerated, and we’re far from a “rise of the machines” (neither military nor civilian), so this might be just a bit of summer noise, this is my bet.