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| Subject: UN talks to target 'killer robots' Tue May 13, 2014 3:04 am | |
| Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies.
That dark vision could all too easily shift from science fiction to fact with disastrous consequences for the human race, unless such weapons are banned before they leap from the drawing board to the arsenal, campaigners warn.
Starting Tuesday, governments are holding the first-ever talks focussed exclusively on so-called "lethal autonomous robots".
The four-day session of the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva could chart the path towards preventing the nightmare scenario evoked by opponents, ahead of a fresh session in November.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/23473887/un-talks-to-target-killer-robots/ |
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