Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk and a thousand leading robotics scientists are very concerned about the development of so-called offensive autonomous weapons, without the intervention of a human decide what targets they will attack.
“Artificial intelligence has reached a point where it is conceivable that autonomous weapons within years rather than decades in operation will be taken, “the scientists write in an open letter. “The stakes here are high: autonomous weapons are seen as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear weapons.”
Among other physicist Stephen Hawking, philosopher Noam Chomsky, Apple founder Steve Wozniak, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk fear an “arms race of artificial intelligence” that could mean the end of humanity. They call on the United Nations to introduce a ban on offensive autonomous weapons. Threatening indeed “the Kalashnikovs of the future” to be, war, terrorism and global instability resulting
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Black market
Such weapons already exist to some extent, as armed drones. They are already used among others by the US military to launch attacks without having to send soldiers in the field. The use of such weapons may limit the number of human casualties on the battlefield significantly, but at the same time lowering them to the threshold to go to war, warn scientists.
“Unlike nuclear weapons requires the production of organic weapons expensive or rare raw materials, so they will be ubiquitous and inexpensive for all significant military forces to mass produce “, he says. “It will be just a matter of time before they appear on the black market and into the hands of terrorists, dictators who want to control their people better, warlords who want to carry out ethnic cleansing, and so on. Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as murder, destabilizing countries, suppressing the population and the selective murder of a particular ethnic group “
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Weakest Link
At the end of the letter warn scientists that the development of autonomous weapons the entire field of research into artificial intelligence will smear and a “huge public impact” which will create immediately all innocent research into artificial intelligence will torpedo. This can be avoided by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons sounds.
The US Air Force predicted earlier that “by 2030 the capacity of machines will be increased so that people are the weakest link.”
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