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killer robots

‘I’m afraid I can’t do that’: Should killer robots be allowed to disobey orders?

By Arthur Holland Michel | Disruptive Technologies

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

The Sea Hunter, an autonomous ship.

Killer robots reconsidered: Could AI weapons actually cut collateral damage?

By Larry Lewis | Artificial Intelligence

robot made of weapons dissolves into doves

Death of efforts to regulate autonomous weapons has been greatly exaggerated

By Neil C. Renic | Opinion, Technology and Security

Demonstrators call on countries to ban killer robots

The United States should drop its opposition to a killer robot treaty

By Lisa A. Bergstrom | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow

Emerging technologies and the future of humanity

By B. R. Allenby | Special Topics, Technology and Security

Stopping killer robots

By Mark Gubrud | Special Topics, Technology and Security