AI warfare is already here

The Convention connected Certain Conventional Weapons, an planetary forum that focuses connected lethal autonomous systems, is hosted doubly a twelvemonth astatine the United Nations successful Geneva. When Branka Marijan attended successful November 2017, she thought the five-day sessions - which dealt mostly successful hypotheticals, speculating connected a satellite wherever warfare was fought with slayer robots - would beryllium concern arsenic usual. After all, this was exertion immoderate thought mightiness ne'er beryllium developed, and apt ne'er deployed. That year, she rapidly realized, was different. That distant, imagined aboriginal was abruptly person and realer than ever.

On the archetypal day, immoderate attendees watched a …

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