{"id":42077,"date":"2017-08-21T07:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42077"},"modified":"2017-08-21T07:31:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T07:31:38","slug":"musk-warns-of-killer-robot-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/musk-warns-of-killer-robot-arms-race.html","title":{"rendered":"Musk warns of killer robot arms race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk warns of killer robot arms race<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Elon Musk and other technology leaders have issued a stark warning about so-called “killer robots”, urging the United Nations to act to prevent a high-tech arms race.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an open letter to the UN, they say lethal autonomous weapons threaten a “third revolution in warfare”.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) industry leaders signed the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Musk has long spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arms race<\/span><\/p>\n

Fears about the rise of AI and the risk posed by machines have escalated in recent years as the technology’s use in warfare develops.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter to the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons calls for solutions to “prevent an arms race” in lethal autonomous weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

These future weapons – dubbed “killer robots” – are machines programmed to hit people or targets, which operate autonomously on the battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter states.<\/span><\/p>\n

“These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways,” it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close,” they added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter was signed by 116 robotics and artificial intelligence leaders from around the world, including Mr Musk and Google’s DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman.<\/span><\/p>\n

A UN group examining autonomous weapons was due to meet on Monday and is now expected to meet in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

The letter was released at an international AI conference in Melbourne on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

A similar letter warning of the dangers of autonomous weapons, signed by a slew of tech experts including Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Mr Musk, was released in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence fears<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Musk has long been a vocal critic about the dangers of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

The billionaire founder of Space X has described artificial intelligence as humanity’s “biggest existential threat”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He founded OpenAI, a non-profit company working for “safer artificial intelligence”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Musk recently clashed with another tech leader, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is less fearful about the future of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

It comes after the Facebook boss said that the doomsday scenario put forward by Mr Musk was unhelpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Musk tweeted: “I’ve talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-40996009<\/span><\/p>\n

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