![]() “Atlas,” a humanoid robot built by Boston Dynamics and unveiled in 2013 as part of the “Robotics Challenge” sponsored by the U.S. military-research agency DARPA. [Source: DARPA on YouTube] |
Our friend Mark Gubrud has a new article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examining the U.S. Department of Defense’s policy regarding “autonomous or semiautonomous weapon systems.” Gubrud, who wrote our most controversial Futurisms post a few years ago, brings together a wealth of links and resources that will be of interest to anyone who wants to start learning about the U.S. military’s real-life plans for killer robots.
Gubrud is now a postdoc research associate at Princeton, as well as a member of something called the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, an organization that has Noel Sharkey, a prominent AI and robotics researcher and commentator, as its chairman.
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