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50 top AI researchers boycott S Korea's top university AI weapons lab 'SKYNET'
| The boycott called for a pledge to refrain from developing AI weapons without "meaningful human control".
The ominous letter warned:
"If developed, autonomous weapons will … permit war to be fought faster and at a scale great than ever before. They will have the potential to be weapons of terror.
University president Sung-Chul Shin hit back against the boycott, saying the lab had "no intention to engage in development of lethal autonomous weapons systems and killer robots."
| Mr Walsh said it remained unclear how one could establish meaningful human control of an unmanned submarine — one of the launch projects — when it was under the sea and unable to communicate.
He said there were many potential good uses of robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the military, including removing humans from dangerous task such as clearing minefields.
"But we should not hand over the decision of who lives or dies to a machine. This crosses a clear moral line,"
| "We should not let robots decide who lives and who dies."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-05/south-korean-university-denies-killer-robots/9623874
| We should not let robots decide who lives and who dies.
Kinda true..
As soon as we allow AI in War or the judicial system we basically allowed them to take a place above us, in the social hierarchy of beings.
Then we basically allowed them to rule over us.
| let's bow to our AI overlords
| Yes our overlords
| >We should not let robots decide who lives and who dies.
Robots decide the way they are programmed by humans. They just do it faster and more efficient and allow a new level of abstraction on murdering. Otherwise we need to think about expanding human rights on robots.
Regardless of this war is bad and public universities should never support it directly. The boycott is a good thing, but I'm afraid it won't stand a chance to the industrial-military complex.
| Oh I just read that, called "Second Variety" by good ol' Phil Dick
| <message>You have been warned</message>
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| More than 50 top Artificial Intelligence researchers on Wednesday announced a boycott of South Korea's top university, after it opened what they called an AI weapons lab with one of South Korea's largest companies.
The researchers, based in 30 countries, said they would refrain from visiting the university (known as KAIST) hosting visitors or cooperating with its research programs.