Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for killer robot ban

Tesla’s Elon Musk and Alphabet’s Mustafa Suleyman are leading a group of 116 robotics and artificial intelligence specialists in a call for a ban on autonomous weapons.

“Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," the group said in a letter.

The letter launched at the debut of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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