Hundreds of experts in artificial intelligence wrote to the United Nations and called for the ban on the development of robotic killers

Today, Elon Musk, co-founder of Google Deepmind Mustafa Suleyman, and more than 100 other AI and robotics experts signed an open letter urging the United Nations to ban the use of robots as weapons.

The joint letter of the mission is mainly aimed at UN officials considering the inclusion of robotic weapons in the CCW.

It is not open to humankind's time scale to emphasize in an open letter: "Once developed successfully and widely used, a war of greater magnitude and speed will be erupted than at any time in history."

open letter

This is not the first time that Musk has drew attention to the threat posed by autonomous weapons to humankind, but despite the concerns expressed by AI experts, the development of robot weapons has, to some extent, been beyond the supervision of the United Nations.

AI and robots are growing at a faster pace than the rest of the world. Compared to other AI trades that are still staggering, autonomous weapons systems are evolving much faster and robots like the Terminator T800 will sooner or later be developed.

Increasingly, autonomous or semi-autonomous capabilities are being used for weapons. Companies such as Thunder, Dassault, and MiG are already developing or developing successful autonomous weapons systems or leading technologies.

Mature products are the Taraness UAV from Samsung SGR-A1 Sentinel, BAE Systems (British Aerospace Systems, London-based multinational arms industry and aerospace equipment company) and DARPA's "Falcon" submarine.

Samsung SGR-A1 robot sentinel

For the first time, representatives of AI and robotics companies from 26 countries put forward a common position on this issue, including independent researcher Howard King, famous linguist Norm Chomsky and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

The UN weapons organization was originally scheduled to meet on August 21, and the current meeting was postponed until November. At this expert meeting, all countries will show their views on "homicidal weaponry" and the fact of discussion on moving towards the formulation of a regulatory framework is about to start.

At present the United States is considered to be rapidly promoting the development of "homicide robots." So far, Japan and the United States, which have developed their robotics technology, have been cautious about the control over the implementation of the treaty during the informal discussions on the control of "homicidal weaponry." Our country has shown its position in favor of control.