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Open letter: we must stop killer robots before they are built

  • Written by The Conversation
imageScience fiction abounds with warnings concerning offensive autonomous weapons, or 'killer robots'.superde1uxe/Flickr, CC BY

More than 1,000 of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have today signed and published an open letter calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons, also known colloquially as “killer...

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