{"id":21194,"date":"2016-01-25T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/delegates-at-davos-held-a-meeting-about-the-dangers-of-autonomous-killer-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:24","slug":"delegates-at-davos-held-a-meeting-about-the-dangers-of-autonomous-killer-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/delegates-at-davos-held-a-meeting-about-the-dangers-of-autonomous-killer-robots","title":{"rendered":"Delegates at Davos held a meeting about the dangers of autonomous \u2018killer robots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/delegates-at-davos-held-a-meeting-about-the-dangers-of-autonomous-killer-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Davos: The True Fear Around Robots \u2014 Autonomous weapons, which are currently being developed by the US, UK, China, Israel, South Korea and Russia, will be capable of identifying targets, adjusting their behavior in response to that target, and ultimately firing \u2014 all without human intervention.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The issue of \u2018killer robots\u2019 one day posing a threat to humans has been discussed at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/davos-delegates-experience-refugee-life-for-75-minutes-a6828886.html\">World Economic Forum meeting<\/a> in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion took place on 21 January during a panel organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/killer-robots-should-be-banned-before-it-is-too-late-warns-human-rights-watch-9363695.html\">Campaign to Stop Killer Robots<\/a> (CSKR) and Time magazine, which asked the question: \u201cWhat if robots go to war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the discussion included former UN disarmament chief Angela Kane, BAE Systems chair Sir Roger Carr, artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Russell and robot ethics expert Alan Winfield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/world-economic-forum-davos-killer-robots-discussion-a6833371.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davos: The True Fear Around Robots \u2014 Autonomous weapons, which are currently being developed by the US, UK, China, Israel, South Korea and Russia, will be capable of identifying targets, adjusting their behavior in response to that target, and ultimately firing \u2014 all without human intervention. The issue of \u2018killer robots\u2019 one day posing a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68725,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions\/68725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}