A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Killer robots

Welcome to the fifth article in TNW's guide to the AI apocalypse. In this series we examine some of the most popular doomsday scenarios prognosticated by modern AI experts. Previous articles in this series include: Misaligned Objectives, Artificial Stupidity, Wall-E Syndrome, and Humanity Joins the Hivemind. We've danced around the subject of killer robots in the previous four editions in this series, but it's time to look the machines in their beady red eyes and… speculate. First things first: the reason why we haven't covered'killer robots' in this series so far is because it's an incredibly unlikely doomsday scenario. But, even in today's modern age of AI-everything, that particular scenario remains highly unlikely.