AI and autonomous weapons experts giving evidence to a Parliamentary Committee refute the idea that humans can be taken out of decision making processes at war.
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Artificial intelligence is technically incapable of distinguishing between the complex contextual factors of combat situations, and will likely never be able to, according to legal and software experts.
A two-day conference on drone warfare and other advanced technological means of killing starts at noon EDT today from Berlin. Watch it here.
Full two-day program below. All times CET, currently five hours ahead of EDT. Streamed by the Disruption Network Lab, which is hosting its 26th conference.
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Although the age of killer robots may seem far off, is it closer than we’d like. Can we afford to give machines the power to kill humans?
UK Student/Young Pugwash (SYP) is holding its first Festival of Ethical Science, a month-long event targeted at STEM students. From the climate emergency to open-source research, the series of webinars tackle some of the ethical and political challenges faced by science and technology in the 21
st century. I attended the talk ‘Code for Coders – Killer Robots, Ethics and the Law’ which gave comforting reasons as to why fully autonomous weapons seem technically unfeasible, at least for now.