Comment by Grit on Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015 · 2015-07-27T15:20:07.529Z · LW · GW

Published 4 hours ago as of Monday 27 July 2015 20.18 AEST:

Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on AI and autonomous weapons: Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a “military artificial intelligence arms race” and calling for a ban on “offensive autonomous weapons”.

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