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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: James_Miller 27 July 2015 11:17:47PM 1 point [-]

I didn't read the letter but did it have a subsection saying something like "and if this creates a future shortage of military manpower we would welcome our children being drafted to fight against the common enemies of mankind such as ISIS"?