{"id":86895,"date":"2019-01-22T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/red-cross-sounds-alarm-over-use-of-killer-robots-in-future-wars"},"modified":"2019-01-22T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T10:22:20","slug":"red-cross-sounds-alarm-over-use-of-killer-robots-in-future-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/red-cross-sounds-alarm-over-use-of-killer-robots-in-future-wars","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross sounds alarm over use of \u2018killer robots\u2019 in future wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/red-cross-sounds-alarm-over-use-of-killer-robots-in-future-wars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Countries must agree strict rules on \u201ckiller robots\u201d \u2014 autonomous weapons which can assassinate without human involvement, a top Red Cross official has said, amid growing ethical concerns over their use in future wars.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-autonomous weapons systems from drones to tanks have for decades been used to eliminate targets in modern day warfare \u2014 but they all have human control behind them.<\/p>\n<p>With rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, there are fears among humanitarians over its use to develop machines which can independently make the decision about who to kill.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/overseas\/01\/22\/19\/red-cross-sounds-alarm-over-use-of-killer-robots-in-future-wars\">https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/overseas\/01\/22\/19\/red-cross-sounds-...uture-wars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Countries must agree strict rules on \u201ckiller robots\u201d \u2014 autonomous weapons which can assassinate without human involvement, a top Red Cross official has said, amid growing ethical concerns over their use in future wars. Semi-autonomous weapons systems from drones to tanks have for decades been used to eliminate targets in modern day warfare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86895","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}