{"id":18199,"date":"2015-10-07T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/risk-of-robotic-warfare-edges-closer-as-un-regulation-stalls-experts-warn"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:05:14","slug":"risk-of-robotic-warfare-edges-closer-as-un-regulation-stalls-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/risk-of-robotic-warfare-edges-closer-as-un-regulation-stalls-experts-warn","title":{"rendered":"Risk of robotic warfare edges closer as UN regulation stalls, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/articles\/shutterstock_175595189_1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be back.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Experts have previously voiced their fears of malevolent <em>Terminator <\/em>-style artificial intelligence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/develop-safe-ai-before-it-s-too-late-warns-oxford-academic\">developing sufficient smarts to pose a risk to humans in the future<\/a>, but the very real dangers of robotic warfare are already becoming a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the best efforts of a huge coalition of scientists and tech leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-and-steve-wozniak-lead-a-team-of-ai-experts-who-want-killer-robots-banned\">calling for a ban on the development of autonomous weapons systems<\/a>, the failure of the United Nations to effectively regulate the \u2018killer robot\u2019 industry is already enabling the makers of dangerous technology, according to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/oct\/06\/autonomous-weapons-un-delay-robot-wars\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is indeed a danger now that [the process] may get stuck,\u201d said Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/oct\/06\/autonomous-weapons-un-delay-robot-wars\">as reported by Harriet Grant<\/a>. \u201cA lot of money is going into development and people will want a return on their investment. If there is not a pre-emptive ban on the high-level autonomous weapons then once the genie is out of the bottle it will be extremely difficult to get it back in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/risk-of-robotic-warfare-edges-closer-as-un-regulation-stalls-experts-warn\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ll be back. Experts have previously voiced their fears of malevolent Terminator \u2013style artificial intelligence developing sufficient smarts to pose a risk to humans in the future, but the very real dangers of robotic warfare are already becoming a problem. Despite the best efforts of a huge coalition of scientists and tech leaders calling for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45633,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}