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Saturday, May 17, 2014

U.N. leaders discuss concerns of ‘killer robots’

MQ-9 ReaperLeaders with the United Nations say they are concerned about killer robots.

Specifically, the UN is holding a convention on “lethal autonomous weapons systems.”

“We’re living in an incredibly important moment when it comes to the history of weapons and war,” said Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution. “Now we’re having to compare weapons by their intelligence, they’re autonomy. That’s something new that we haven’t measured before.”

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