The panic over lethal automated weapons systems is unfounded, and could be dangerous

2018-11-24 11:55

Killer robots sound pretty scary. But we might be overlooking a few key aspects about their benefits, or at the very least, we’re looking at them the wrong way. To get more specific, I’m talking about lethal autonomous weapons systems (or LAWs), which are autonomous military robots that are designed to find and engage with specific targets based on their programming.

In practice, they could be used to remotely and independently search for and execute a person who poses a threat to humanity. Note that these are distinguished from remotely operated weapons (ROWs), which require the operation and control of…

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