{"id":262263,"date":"2017-08-21T16:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=262263"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:08:24","slug":"killer-robot-ban-at-un-demanded-by-elon-musk-115-other-tech-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/de\/killer-robot-ban-at-un-demanded-by-elon-musk-115-other-tech-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Killer robot\u2019 ban at UN demanded by Elon Musk & 115 other tech leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
And they are absolutely right! They should be forbidden worldwide. And if one country still uses them, the President of such a country should be prosecuted for a war crime.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics have signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or \u2018killer robots,\u2019 similar to the prohibition on land mines, firebombs and chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to make decisions today choosing which of these futures we want. I strongly support the call by many humanitarian and other organizations for an UN ban on such weapons, similar to bans on chemical and other weapons,\u201d\u00a0Toby Walsh, scientia professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0accompanying the\u00a0letter.<\/p>\n

The letter, released Sunday at the\u00a0International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence\u00a0in Melbourne, was signed by 116 leaders in the field of robotics, engineering and artificial intelligence from 26 countries around the world, including Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX as well as Alphabet\u2019s Mustafa Suleyman.<\/p>\n

It is the first time that AI and robotics companies have made a joint statement on the issue in such great numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless people want to see new weapons of mass destruction \u2013 in the form of vast swarms of lethal microdrones \u2013 spreading around the world, it\u2019s imperative to step up and support the United Nations\u2019 efforts to create a treaty banning lethal autonomous weapons. This is vital for national and international security,\u201d\u00a0Stuart Russell, founder and vice-president of Bayesian Logic said in a statement accompanying the letter.<\/p>\n

In December 2016, 123 UN member nations agreed to formal discussions on autonomous lethal weapons, 19 of whom have already called for a ban. However, the UN delayed a meeting scheduled for August 21 to discuss the issue due to\u00a0insufficient funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese 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\u2019s box is opened, it will be hard to close,\u201d the letter states, concluding with an urgent plea for the UN \u201cto find a way to protect us all from these dangers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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