An autonomous robot may have already killed people – here’s how the weapons could be more destabilizing than nukes

Photo caption: The term ‘killer robot’ often conjures images of Terminator-like humanoid robots. Militaries around the world are working on autonomous machines that are less scary looking but no less lethal. John F. Williams / U.S. Navy. Article by James Dawes. The Conversation – September 29, 2021.

Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could well identify this as the starting point of the next major arms race, one that has the potential to be humanity’s final one. […]

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