BLUF

An Australian artificial intelligence expert believes that autonomous systems now being used in war should be banned from the battlefields in the same way that chemical and biological weapons are.

Summary

KEY POINTS:
  • Autonomous weapons need to be added to the UN’s Convention on banned weapons.
  • Historians will view the Ukrainian conflict as the war that transformed the way wars are fought.  
  • Handing over the job of killing to machines is a bad idea because machines have no conscience.

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