autonomous weapons

The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own

The United States has put artificial intelligence at the center of its defense strategy, with weapons

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Among Hundreds to Urge Ban on Military Robots

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, along with hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers and experts, are

Fearing Bombs That Can Pick Whom to Kill

On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air

An RQ-4 Global Hawk drone flies over mountains and desert. Credit: Northrop Grumman
Killer Robots: Natural Evolution, or Abomination?

Ask one technologist and he or she might say that lethal autonomous weapons — machines