Killer Robots: The True Danger of AI

Imagine an AI that recognizes people and targets them; imagine putting that piece of software into a weapon.. et voilà. This is how you get AI weapons, aka "autonomous weapons systems" (AWS) for the experts, aka "killer robots" for the mass media. In even simpler words, they are dumb machines using the brain of a clever AI algorithm, created with the only purpose to kill without human intervention. They do not need some crazy person clicking a giant red button to kill the target. When the AI recognizes the target, it fires -- automatically. After all, the only encounter we might have had with AWS may have been watching Terminator or other sci-fi movies.