On 5 October 2017, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) hosted a side event, “Autonomous Weapons Systems: Learning Algorithms and Bias” at the United Nations ...

Others emphasize that autonomous weapons could make catastrophic mistakes. And many observers have overarching ethical concerns about passing targeting decisions to an algorithm. For years ...

Artificial intelligence means machines can operate even when communications are blocked, but there are ethical concerns ...

And as facial recognition and decision-making algorithms become more powerful, it will only get easier. Called “lethal autonomous weapons” — but “killer robots” isn’t an unreasonable ...

And police departments are catching on, with the assistance of an increasingly common tool: algorithms. Because algorithms use patterns in data to predict future behaviour they can forecast books ...

and in truth many soldiers may be wary of systems that rely on algorithms that are far from infallible. And yet if autonomous weapons cannot be banned, then their development will continue.

"Algorithms don't make things fair. They automate the status quo," she said. "They're weapons of math destruction." The free market won't solve the problem, argued O'Neil, because "there's a lot ...