Should Robots Have License to Kill

"We are not talking about Terminator. We're talking about much simpler technologies, which are at best a few years away, and in fact, many of which you can see under development today in every theater of the war." He spoke February 14th as part of discussion called Killer Robots: Technological, Legal and Ethical Challenges at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "And so these are systems that are using sensors and software processing on their own to determine what constitutes a target and then applying lethal force to that, without supervision or meaningful human control." Another speaker, Peter Asaro, co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, has participated in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons.