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Comment author: Grit 27 July 2015 03:20:07PM *  7 points [-]

Published 4 hours ago as of Monday 27 July 2015 20.18 AEST:

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on AI and autonomous weapons: Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”.

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 27 July 2015 06:18:51PM *  0 points [-]

I like the spirit of the proposal but I fear it will be very hard to draw a reasonable line between military AI and non-military AI. Do computer vision algorithms have military applications? Do planning algorithms? Well, they do if you hook them up to a robot with a gun.

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