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Should We Preemptively Ban Killer Robots Of The Future?

U.S. Army soldiers and a TALON robot, a military robot that is not (yet) autonomous
U.S. Army soldiers and a TALON robot, a military robot that is not (yet) autonomous The U.S. Army

PARIS — We’ve hardly made peace with the idea of driverless cars, and now we’re being told that artificial intelligence could also control rifles, missiles and bombs of the future. The warning was issued last summer by leading figures such as Tesla chief Elon Musk, physicist Stephen Hawking and MIT Professor Noam Chomsky. During July’s […]

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Japan’s Challenge To Google On Self-Driving Cars

Toyota's self-driving Lexus
Toyota's self-driving Lexus Ariel Zambelich/Wired

TOKYO — Since the beginning of 2013, as many as 3,500 people have died on Japanese roads. Some 52% of these victims were aged over 65, representing a high mortality rate of 6 per 100,000 in an age category that is progressively becoming the dominant generation — in the aging archipelago, 1 out of 4 […]

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