Elon Musk and some of the most respected Artificial Intelligence researchers concluded that they will not build robot killing machines.

A public pledge was made, stating, that they will not build any ”lethal autonomous weapons”. Signatory to the new pledge include founders of Deepmind, a founder of skype, and leading academic from across the industry promise not to build any technology that will be used as killer machines.

They also advised international government to do more by regulating and restricting the use of any autonomous killing machine, amid fear that any country in possession of such weapons could lead to armed race and will contribute to making the world unstable.

During the pledge they also stated that the decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a machine. Currently, machines are being used in battle fields today, but experts are concerned that in the future technology could be entirely autonomous and would be able to kill humans without any intervention from other people. They believe that such situation will create a lot of problems.

They also warn that autonomous killing machines could also be more dangerous than ”nuclear, chemical and biological weapons”, since an arm race could easily run out of control and international organisation won’t be able to control such situations.

they pledged never to take part in the development, manufacture, trade or use of any lethal autonomous weapons.

The pledge has been signed by 170 organisations and 2464 individuals.

Source: https://cover9ja.com/elon-musk-deepmind-and-ai-researchers-promise-not-to-develop-robot-killing-machines/