{"id":74722,"date":"2017-12-28T06:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/ai-researchers-create-video-to-call-for-autonomous-weapons-ban-at-un"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:09:51","slug":"ai-researchers-create-video-to-call-for-autonomous-weapons-ban-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/ai-researchers-create-video-to-call-for-autonomous-weapons-ban-at-un","title":{"rendered":"AI Researchers Create Video to Call for Autonomous Weapons Ban at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9CO6M2HsoIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In response to growing concerns about autonomous weapons, a coalition of AI researchers and advocacy organizations released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA&feature=youtu.be\">a fictitious video<\/a> on Monday that depicts a disturbing future in which lethal autonomous weapons have become cheap and ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<p>The video was launched in Geneva, where AI researcher Stuart Russell presented it at an event at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/disarmament\/geneva\/ccw\/\">United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons<\/a> hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopkillerrobots.org\/\">Campaign to Stop Killer Robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, in an appearance at the end of the video, warns that the technology described in the film already exists and that the window to act is closing fast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2017\/11\/14\/ai-researchers-create-video-call-autonomous-weapons-ban-un\/\">https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/2017\/11\/14\/ai-researchers-create-vi...ns-ban-un\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to growing concerns about autonomous weapons, a coalition of AI researchers and advocacy organizations released a fictitious video on Monday that depicts a disturbing future in which lethal autonomous weapons have become cheap and ubiquitous. The video was launched in Geneva, where AI researcher Stuart Russell presented it at an event at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74865,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722\/revisions\/74865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}