{"id":20046,"date":"2015-12-16T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/russia-china-building-robot-army"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:23:46","slug":"russia-china-building-robot-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/russia-china-building-robot-army","title":{"rendered":"Russia, China Building \u2018Robot\u2019 Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-china-building-robot-army.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite more than a thousand artificial-intelligence researchers signing an open letter this summer in an effort to ban autonomous weapons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-and-china-are-building-highly-autonomous-killer-robots-2015-12\"><strong>Business Insider<\/strong><\/a> reports that China and Russia are in the process of creating self-sufficient killer robots, and in turn is putting pressure on the Pentagon to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that China is already investing heavily in robotics and autonomy and the Russian Chief of General Staff [Valery Vasilevich] Gerasimov recently said that the Russian military is preparing to fight on a roboticized battlefield,\u201d U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said during a national security forum on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Work added, \u201c[Gerasimov] said, and I quote, \u2018In the near future, it is possible that a complete roboticized unit will be created capable of independently conducting military operations.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/Russia-China-Building-Robot\/2015\/12\/16\/id\/705991\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite more than a thousand artificial-intelligence researchers signing an open letter this summer in an effort to ban autonomous weapons, Business Insider reports that China and Russia are in the process of creating self-sufficient killer robots, and in turn is putting pressure on the Pentagon to keep up. \u201cWe know that China is already investing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30,9,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ethics","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions\/51234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}