{"id":95119,"date":"2019-08-22T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amazon-microsoft-putting-world-at-risk-of-killer-ai-study"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T16:43:49","slug":"amazon-microsoft-putting-world-at-risk-of-killer-ai-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amazon-microsoft-putting-world-at-risk-of-killer-ai-study","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Microsoft, \u2018putting world at risk of killer AI\u2019: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-microsoft-putting-world-at-risk-of-killer-ai-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington (AFP) \u2014 Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could be relevant to deadly AI, whether they were working on related military projects, and if they had committed to abstaining from contributing in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are companies like Microsoft and Amazon not denying that they\u2019re currently developing these highly controversial weapons, which could decide to kill people without direct human involvement?\u201d said Frank Slijper, lead author of the report published this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington (AFP) \u2014 Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95119","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\/95119","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}