AI faces its ‘Oppenheimer Moment’ during killer robot arms race


Schallenberg (pic) referenced Oppenheimer, who contributed to the development of the atomic bomb in 1945 and later promoted restrictions on the proliferation of nuclear weapons, stating that ‘This is the Oppenheimer Moment of our generation’. — AFP

Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines may not have much time left to do so, governments were warned on Monday.

As autonomous weapons systems rapidly proliferate, including across battlefields in Ukraine and Gaza, algorithms and unmanned aerial vehicles are already helping military planners decide whether or not to hit targets. Soon, that decision could be outsourced entirely to the machines.

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