A short film called Slaughterbots was presented at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons at the United Nations in Geneva last Friday. According to CNET, the film was produced by the Future of ...

Perhaps the most nightmarish, dystopian film of 2017 didn’t come from Hollywood. Autonomous weapons critics, led by a college professor, put together a horror show. It’s a seven-minute video, a ...

Killer drones — or “slaughterbots” — are already conducting airstrikes without any humans involved in the decision making, according to a recent UN report. Again, not the piloting, the decision making ...

The robot apocalypse may arrive a bit sooner than expected. UC Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell in a presentation released by the Future of Life Institute — which is backed by ...

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There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute. He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical anonymous "slaughterbots." This year ...

Welcome back Sifyiites, to Episode 2 of our slaughterbots podcast. Joining us are Sindhu, Satyen, and Nigel and me, Prathmesh Kher. For those who came in late, in our last podcast we discussed ...