{"id":92493,"date":"2019-06-23T01:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/death-now-researchers-in-ai-and-public-policy-are-trying-to-make-the-case-that-killer-robots-arent-just-a-bad-idea-in-the-movies-theyre-a-bad-idea-in-real-life"},"modified":"2019-06-23T01:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:42:25","slug":"death-now-researchers-in-ai-and-public-policy-are-trying-to-make-the-case-that-killer-robots-arent-just-a-bad-idea-in-the-movies-theyre-a-bad-idea-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/death-now-researchers-in-ai-and-public-policy-are-trying-to-make-the-case-that-killer-robots-arent-just-a-bad-idea-in-the-movies-theyre-a-bad-idea-in-real-life","title":{"rendered":"Death: Now, researchers in AI and public policy are trying to make the case that killer robots aren\u2019t just a bad idea in the movies \u2014 they\u2019re a bad idea in real life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/death2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are certainly ways to use AI to reduce the collateral damage and harms of war, but fully autonomous weapons would also usher in a host of new moral, technical, and strategic dilemmas, which is why scientists and activists have pushed the United Nations and world governments to consider a preemptive ban. Their hope is that we can keep killer robots in the realm of science fiction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We have the technology to make robots that kill without oversight. But should we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certainly ways to use AI to reduce the collateral damage and harms of war, but fully autonomous weapons would also usher in a host of new moral, technical, and strategic dilemmas, which is why scientists and activists have pushed the United Nations and world governments to consider a preemptive ban. Their hope is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,30,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-ethics","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92493","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}