Killer robots await Trump’s verdict
The new president will have to decide how aggressively the U.S. pursues military technology that could let machines make life-or-death decisions.
By Andrew Hanna
12/25/16, 3:32 PM CET
Updated 12/26/16, 7:07 AM CET
Swarms of armed drones programmed to “fire and forget.” Fully automated anti-missile shields. Killer robots designed to identify and eliminate suspected terrorists on sight.
It all sounds like something out of science fiction, but a new age of machines empowered to make decisions about life and death is dawning as research in artificial intelligence advances. And President-elect Donald Trump will have to make crucial decisions about whether the U.S. military embraces the technology.
http://www.politico.eu/article/killer-robots-await-donald-trumps-verdict-terrorists-intelligence/
