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Thousands of Scientists Say We Need a Global Ban on Autonomous Weapons

• http://motherboard.vice.com, by VICTORIA TURK

That's according to an open letter from the Future of Life Institute, an organisation dedicated to mitigating existential risks. It's endorsed by thousands, including such household names (and outspoken prophets of AI doom) as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk.

"People have argued about autonomous weapons for years," said Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and one of the FLI's founders. "This is the AI experts who are building the technology who are speaking up and saying they don't want anything to do with this."

He likened the situation to physicists, biologists, and chemists speaking out against research in their fields being used to develop nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

Toby Walsh, a professor of AI at the University of South Wales in Australia who will present the letter at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, said it was time that AI researchers made their stance clear.


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