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Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines
This brief statement by science luminaries urges caution in the development of artificial intelligence and notes the calls for an international treaty to ban autonomous weapon systems that can choose and eliminate their own targets.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.
Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. In the near term, for example, world militaries are considering autonomous weapon systems that can choose and eliminate their own targets; the UN and Human Rights Watch have advocated a treaty banning such weapons.
The original article can be found on the Huffington Post website here.
