{"id":96748,"date":"2019-09-27T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/microsoft-chief-brad-smith-says-rise-of-killer-robots-is-unstoppable"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:22:28","slug":"microsoft-chief-brad-smith-says-rise-of-killer-robots-is-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/microsoft-chief-brad-smith-says-rise-of-killer-robots-is-unstoppable","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft chief Brad Smith says rise of killer robots is \u2018unstoppable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-chief-brad-smith-says-rise-of-killer-robots-is-unstoppable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rise of killer robots is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2017\/11\/14\/killer-robots-almost-reality-need-banned-warns-leading-ai-scientist\/\"> now unstoppable<\/a> and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose, according to the President of the world\u2019s biggest technology company.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Telegraph, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said the use of \u2018lethal autonomous weapon systems\u2019 poses a host of new ethical questions which need to be considered by governments as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n<p>He said the rapidly advancing technology, in which flying, swimming or walking drones can be equipped with lethal weapons systems \u2013 missiles, bombs or guns \u2013 which could be programmed to operate entirely or partially autonomously, \u201cultimately will spread\u2026 to many countries\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose, according to the President of the world\u2019s biggest technology company. In an interview with The Telegraph, Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, said the use of \u2018lethal autonomous weapon systems\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96748","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\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}