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Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots
Killer Robots Killer robots are coming for us all. But rather than a T-1000 spewing one-liners, autonomous weapon systems like drones could end up replacing human soldiers on the battlefield entirely,...
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US Military: Our "Lethality Automated System" Definitely Isn't a Killer Robot
Autonomous Killing Machine In February, the U.S. Army asked experts for ideas on how to build a system that would allow tanks and other ground-combat vehicles to quickly and automatically "acquire,...
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Experts: It’d Be "Relatively Easy" to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021
Decision Maker Killer robots aren't nearly as hard to build as you might think — and they could be here sooner than you expect, too. Those are two of the disturbing takeaways from a new Vox story...
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China Is Selling Autonomous Killer Drones to the Middle East
Killbots Chinese military contractors have already started to sell dangerous, autonomous killer robots to customers in the Middle East. For instance, a Chinese company called Ziyan is actively...
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Middle Eastern Nation First to Buy Drone Armed With Machine Gun
Before the end of the year, Turkey will become the first nation to get its hands on a brand new military drone equipped with a machine gun. It's called the Songar, and it can carry 200 rounds of...
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These Are the Pentagon's New Ethics "Principles" for AI in Warfare
"Ethical Use" On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the Associated Press reports. The principles...
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Company Mounts Paintball Gun on Robot Dog to Shoot Up Art Gallery
Marketing collective MSCHF has decided to let a robot dog equipped with a paintball loose inside an art gallery — and it's letting people around the world take control of it remotely, The Verge...
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Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks
The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, state news agency TASS reports. The remotely piloted tank, called Uran-9, can be and be outfitted with...
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Academics: Ban the Killer “Slaughterbots” Before We All Die
Rise of the Slaughterbots Killer drones — or "slaughterbots" — are already conducting airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report. Again, not the...
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Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border
Prison Guards Palestine's Gaza Strip, thanks to the influence of Israel's military, has functionally become an open-air prison where residents' movements are heavily restricted and controlled. And now,...
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Russia: Our Killer Robots Don't Need Any Pesky International Laws
AI Unleashed United Nations delegates are currently meeting to debate possible regulations controlling autonomous killer robots — but Russia is having none of it. The Russian delegate, representing a...
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Israel Shows Off Massive Military Robot With a Huge Machine Gun
Death Robots The Israeli military has unveiled a brutal-looking, remote-controlled — but, ominously, also somewhat autonomous — robot that can be outfitted with two large machine guns, CBS News...
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Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog
For years, we've been warning that it was only a matter of time — and now, the inevitable has happened. Somebody strapped an honest-to-god sniper rifle to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog. An image...
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Experts Shocked by Military Robodog With Sniper Rifle Attachment
Yesterday, we reported that the military hardware company Ghost Robotics had debuted a robodog with an attached sniper rifle. Now, experts are speaking out against the heavily armed robodog, which they...
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Former General Warns About Rise of Killer Robots
Inevitable Evil Former general Stanley McChrystal, who led coalition forces in Afghanistan for two years before criticizing the Obama administration and getting fired, has a dire warning: Killer robots...
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US Military Horrified by Chinese Military Spending Money on Exact Same Crap...
It looks like China's "doomsday" weaponry pipeline may be more American than its critics care to admit. In a new POLITICO op-ed, Georgetown military researcher Ryan Fedasiuk revealed that much of the...
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MIT Professor Warns That Cartels Could Use "Slaughterbots" to Evade Justice
Cheap, lightweight killer robots are just around the corner — and major military powers, including the US, are doing very little to stop them. In an interview with TheNextWeb, MIT artificial...
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Company That Put Rifle on Robodog Deploying Anti-Immigrant Bots to Mexico Border
Terminator Dogs In a bleakly dystopian turn of events, the Department of Homeland Security is deploying robot dogs to patrol the United States' southern border. Behind the deployment is Ghost...
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Pentagon: Stop Asking Questions About Our "Killer Robots," Which Don't Exist...
Killing Commentary The Pentagon is selling a t-shirt that says not to worry about their "killer robots" — which raises a lot of questions arguably answered by their t-shirt, it seems. During a recent...
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San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People
San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to kill civilians using robots. Yes, that's a real thing that just happened — though it sounds like an episode of "Black Mirror,"...
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