Elon Musk, Others Call For Military Artificial Intelligence Ban

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driven by a mathematical logic that does not have empathy, cannot be reasoned with and does, pretty much, exactly what it is programmed to do. In other words: the perfect killing machine.

Letter says ban artificial intelligence in weaponized target selection and killing

Now a group of 1,000 people, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Noam Chomsky, signed a letter requesting a ban on autonomous military robots. The letter will be delivered to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires tomorrow and is signed by a variety of...