{"id":132688,"date":"2021-12-19T03:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/killer-robots-arent-science-fiction-a-push-to-ban-them-is-growing"},"modified":"2021-12-19T03:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T11:23:54","slug":"killer-robots-arent-science-fiction-a-push-to-ban-them-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/killer-robots-arent-science-fiction-a-push-to-ban-them-is-growing","title":{"rendered":"Killer robots aren\u2019t science fiction; a push to ban them is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/killer-robots-arent-science-fiction-a-push-to-ban-them-is-growing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence, military strategy, disarmament and humanitarian law.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the interest? Killer robots \u2014 drones, guns and bombs that decide on their own, with artificial brains, whether to attack and kill \u2014 and what should be done, if anything, to regulate or ban them.<\/p>\n<p>Once the domain of science fiction films like the \u201cTerminator\u201d series and \u201cRoboCop,\u201d killer robots, more technically known as Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, have been invented and tested at an accelerated pace with little oversight. Some prototypes have even been used in actual conflicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently by experts in artificial intelligence, military strategy, disarmament and humanitarian law. The reason for the interest? Killer robots \u2014 drones, guns and bombs that decide on their own, with artificial brains, whether to attack and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1496,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-law","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}