Want To Worry About AI? Then Worry About This…

Expand Audience members pose questions on AI and modern conflict at a town hall meeting of the Munich Security Conference in February 2018. Mary Wareham, arms division advocacy director at Human Rights Watch (seated second from right) represented the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots on the panel, in her role as coordinator of the global coalition. © 2018 MSC / Kuhlmann As the coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots since its inception five years ago, I’ve been working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons. As you might imagine, so much has changed since 2013. Such major military…

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