UN and Red Cross press for treaty as AI weapons gain power to choose targets

AI Weapons That Can Choose Who to Kill Are Already Here. The UN Warns the World is Crossing a Dangerous Line

What happens when AI gets to decide which human a weapon should kill?

Autonomous Weapons and Killer Robots: New Warnings, Old Habits

Photo by Thierry K Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self.  This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines.”  Both ins…

UN and Red Cross press for treaty as AI weapons gain power to choose targets

The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross say weapons with increasing autonomy no longer exist solely in the realm of science fiction.

UN and Red Cross International repeat call for rules on lethal autonomous weapons

Unconfirmed reports of fully autonomous and AI (artificial intelligence) guided UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) employed in battles and fighting again saw the