Ex-Google worker fears 'killer robots' could cause mass atrocities
by Henry McDonald from Technology | The Guardian on (#4QD45)
Engineer who quit over military drone project warns AI might also accidentally start a war
A new generation of autonomous weapons or "killer robots" could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities, a former top Google software engineer has warned.
Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year in protest at being sent to work on a project to dramatically enhance US military drone technology, has called for all AI killing machines not operated by humans to be banned.
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