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<\/div>Warning Signs<\/h2>
If governments turn control of their weapons systems over to fully-autonomous machines, we may face devastating, unintentional calamities or acts of war.<\/p>
So warns Laura Nolan, a former Google software engineer who left the company in protest of Project Maven<\/a>, Google’s since-abandoned AI development program for military drones. She told The Guardian<\/em><\/a> this week that there should always be a human finger on the trigger — lest the tech do “calamitous things that they were not originally programmed for.”<\/p> Major military powers including Russia<\/a>, the U.K.<\/a>, and the U.S.<\/a> have invested heavily in autonomous weapons, military drones, and battlefield robots. But the idea isn’t as popular outside of military circles, with growing numbers of scientists<\/a> calling on governments to ban fully-autonomous weaponry<\/a>.<\/p> “You could have a scenario where autonomous weapons that have been sent out to do a job confront unexpected radar signals in an area they are searching,” Nolan told The Guardian<\/em>, illustrating a hypothetical problem area, suggesting that a machine might mistake hunters for enemy combatants and open fire.<\/p> “Very few people are talking about this but if we are not careful one or more of these weapons, these killer robots, could accidentally start a flash war, destroy a nuclear power station and cause mass atrocities,” Nolan added.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Ex-Google worker fears ‘killer robots’ could cause mass atrocities<\/a> [The Guardian<\/em>]<\/p> More on autonomous weapons: <\/strong>Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: Warning Signs If governments turn control of their weapons systems over to fully-autonomous machines, we may face devastating, unintentional calamities or acts of war. So warns Laura Nolan, a former Google software engineer who left the company in protest of Project Maven , Google\u2019s since-abandoned AI development program for military drones Continue reading Collateral Damage<\/h2>
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