Politicians call for ban on 'killer robots' and the curbing of AI weapons

Video Austria's foreign minister on Monday likened the rise of military artificial intelligence to the existential crisis faced by the creators of the first atomic bomb, and called for a ban on "killer robots".

"This is, I believe, the Oppenheimer moment of our generation," Alexander Schallenberg said at the start of the Vienna conference entitled 'Humanity at the Crossroads: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation.'

"Autonomous weapons systems will soon fill the world's battlefields. We already see this with AI enabled drones and AI based target selection,” he said. You can watch the full session below.

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Schallenberg’s comments come just weeks after the US Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) detailed efforts to put AI in control of tanks and even an F-16 fighter jet. As we've previously reported, efforts to expand the autonomy of weapons platforms has been ...