We told you about the loving robots and existential-threat robots, and now it looks like the United Nations is triangulating between those poles as it urges humankind to be careful about developing autonomous warrior robots. The concern is driven less by a future Terminator, and more about the present explosive growth of drone warfare, which wedges open the door to increasingly automated killing. Christof Heyns, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, has urged the world’s militaries to pause in producing such “lethal autonomous robotics” ... Read More
