/ 18 May 2022

Beware killer robots powered by AI

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The United States reportedly budgeted close to $18-billion in the period 2016 to 2020 for the research, design and development of autonomous weapon systems. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)
We are ‘dangerously close’ to fully autonomous weapons

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