CNN Erin Burnett OutFront May 29, 2013 23:30:00
A u.n. official is expected to call for a moratorium on lethal autonomous robotics or what some call killer robots. during an address to the u.n. human rights counsel this week, these are robots that once launched can engage targets without future further human input. and the official warns they could "exercise the power of life and death over human beings." a professor called for a ban writing recently for cnn that robots don't have the moral agency to make crucial judgment calls much less conform to international law. our third story "outfront," the mysterious death of a former football st...