Musk and Hawking lead 1,000 strong call for AI weapons ban

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by Sindy Cator on July 27, 2015 at 1:32 pm

The murderous aims of Skynet in the Terminator series of movies are pretty well known, so you’d think that nations might be a little cautious about working towards a fully automated weapon system for the future. Unfortunately, it seems that the UK is taking a soft line towards the development of ‘killer robots’. In response, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and more than 1,000 other AI and robotics researchers (primarily) have put their names to an open letter calling for caution around the introduction of AI weaponry. Hawking’s support comes as little surprise, as he’s already stated that AI could “spell the…