Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones

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1. CNN article about the video

From http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/14/technology/autonomous-weapons-ban-ai/index.html

'Slaughterbots' film shows potential horrors of killer drones
by Matt McFarland @mattmcfarland

Perhaps the most nightmarish, dystopian film of 2017 didn't come from Hollywood. Autonomous weapons critics, led by a college professor, put together a horror show.

It's a seven-minute video, a collaboration between University of California-Berkeley professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute that shows a future in which palm-sized, autonomous drones use facial recognition technology and on-board explosives to commit untraceable massacres.

The film is the researchers' latest attempt to build support for a global ban on autonomous weapon systems, which kill without meaningful human control.

They released the video to coincide with meetings the United Nations' Convention on Conventional Weapons is holding this week in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss autonomous weapons.

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More at link.

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2. Musk is sounding the alarm on the potential dangers associated with

artificial intelligence in general. Interesting debate. Generally, I think I'd trust Musk over Zuckerburg on matters intellectual. Elon Musk dismisses Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI threat as ‘limited’

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3. K&R

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4. This is terrifyingly plausible

I have been thinking myself for several years that drones will be the murder weapons of the future. This video just takes that idea and dots all the i's and crosses all the t's.

The only solution to it will be to strictly license and control the manufacture and sale of airborne drones, and to harshly punish all non licensed uses of drones. It won't be good enough to say your drones aren't self-directed or lethal, since there's no way to tell the good toy drones from the bad killer ones.

It sucks if you're into this kind of thing as a hobby, but this is why we can't have nice things.