AI expert warns that military robots could go off the rails and wipe out the very people they are supposed to protect

Natural News: Richard Moyes, a founding member of the non-government organization Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (CSKR), warns that autonomous military robots may develop their own intelligence and turn against its human creators. In particular, Moyes says that advancing technologies are opening doors to opportunities (and risks) that even the smartest experts cannot predict.

“A human can’t really make legal or moral judgments about the effects that they are creating through the use of these systems,” he says.

Moyes expresses his concern that a “malfunction” in how these robots operate can potentially lead to the loss of lives of actual human soldiers. He is pushing toward creating an international law that would ensure humans remain in complete control of robotic weapons systems...read more>>>...