Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter
Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann Stuart Russell is right that AI’s builders fear losing control of it (Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk, 11 August). But it is not only a future superintelligence’s problem; it is already loaded into weapons, where a loss of control kills a civilian today, not humanit
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Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann Stuart Russell is right that AI’s builders fear losing control of it (Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk, 11 August). But it is not only a future superintelligence’s problem; it is already loaded into weapons, where a loss of control kills a civilian today, not humanit
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Autonomous drones and the future of war in an AI-driven world | Letter
Machines that kill without distinction, answerable to no one, leave no one safe, writes military surgeon Dr Darren Mann Stuart Russell is right that AI’s builders fear losing control of it (Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk, 11 August). But it is not only a future superintelligence’s problem; it is already loaded into weapons, where a loss of control kills a civilian today, not humanit
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