{"id":73914,"date":"2017-11-22T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T21:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/russia-to-the-united-nations-dont-try-to-stop-us-from-building-killer-robots"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:02:35","slug":"russia-to-the-united-nations-dont-try-to-stop-us-from-building-killer-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/russia-to-the-united-nations-dont-try-to-stop-us-from-building-killer-robots","title":{"rendered":"Russia to the United Nations: Don\u2019t Try to Stop Us From Building Killer Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UN attempt to regulate AI is doomed to failure. If the USA doesnt veto, and i\u2019m sure it would, China and Russia will.<\/p>\n

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UN efforts to limit or regulate military AI may be failing before they even begin.<\/p>\n

Arms control advocates had reason for hope <\/strong>when scores of countries met at the United Nations in Geneva<\/a> last week to discuss the future of lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWS. Unlike previous meetings, this one<\/a> involved a Group of Governmental Experts, a big bump in diplomatic formality and consequence, and those experts had a mandate to better define lethal autonomy in weapons. But hopes for even a small first step toward restricting \u201ckiller robots\u201d were dashed as the meeting unfolded. Russia announced that it would adhere to no international ban, moratorium or regulation on such weapons. Complicating the issue, the meeting was run in a way that made any meaningful progress toward defining (and thus eventually regulating) LAWS nearly impossible. Multiple attendees pointed out that that played directly toward Russia\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Nov. 10 statement<\/a> amounts to a lawyerly attempt to undermine any progress toward a ban. It argues that defining \u201clethal autonomous robots\u201d is too hard, not yet necessary, and a threat to legitimate technology development.<\/p>\n

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The UN attempt to regulate AI is doomed to failure. If the USA doesnt veto, and i\u2019m sure it would, China and Russia will. UN efforts to limit or regulate military AI may be failing before they even begin. Arms control advocates had reason for hope when scores of countries met at the United Nations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73914","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\/73914","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=73914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74120,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73914\/revisions\/74120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}