Military robots are getting smaller and more capable
Soon, they will travel in swarms
ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots†was uploaded to YouTube. It is the brainchild of Stuart Russell, a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, and was paid for by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a group of concerned scientists and technologists that includes Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal. It is set in a near-future in which small drones fitted with face-recognition systems and shaped explosive charges can be programmed to seek out and kill known individuals or classes of individuals (those wearing a particular uniform, for example). In one scene, the drones are shown collaborating with each other to gain entrance to a building. One acts as a petard, blasting through a wall to grant access to the others.
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21732507-soon-they-will-travel-swarms-military-robots-are-getting-smaller-and-moreMilitary robots are getting smaller and more capable
