Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Killer robots 2

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Will a ban on fully autonomous weapons (because they are "morally repugnant") keep us safer? If the United Nations asserts such a ban, will rogue nations like North Korea and Iran feel obligated to submit or will they defy it?

China is building killer robots and selling them to the Middle East. Will they scrap their programs out of concern for human rights? Not likely. This is the nation that blows up churches and mosques, holds captive a million Muslim Uyghurs, and puts up 600 million cameras to watch its citizens.

This arms race is well on its way. No one wants to get into a fight they know they will lose.





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