Regulators have warned that AI is facing its'Oppenheimer moment,' as the world is facing a killer robot arms race. The statements were made at a conference in Vienna Monday as nations are using AI-powered drones and databases to search out targets on battlefields. The Israeli military was found to use an AI dubbed Lavender to create a kill list and Ukraine is using high-powered drones to unleash endless streams of ammunition. 'This is the Oppenheimer Moment of our generation,' said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. 'Now is the time to agree on international rules and norms.'

Today is a tremulous time for a lot of people in almost every sector around the globe. Things are changing fast thanks primarily to awesome technological advances like nothing we have seen since the invention of gunpowder. No one can deny how the world has been and continues to be changed by gunpowder. Now it is the internet that is disrupting entire societies, both for good and for evil. Everything from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to small IoT gadgets that monitor an employee's daily activities are blasting off into the stratosphere as they continue to develop.

The world's leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics experts, including Tesla's Elon Musk and Google's Mustafa Suleyman, have urged the United Nations to take action to prevent the development of killer robots before it is too late. The letter signed by 116 experts from 26 countries opens with the words, "As companies building the technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics that may be repurposed to develop autonomous weapons, we feel especially responsible in raising this alarm." Though none has been build yet, conceptually a killer robot is fully autonomous and can engage, target and kill humans without any human intervention. Unlike a cruise missile or a remotely piloted drone, where humans make all the target decisions, a quadcopter with AI, for example, can search and destroy people that meet pre-defined criteria on its own. "Retaining human control over use of force is a moral imperative and essential to promote compliance with international law, and ensure accountability," Mary Wareham, advocacy director, Arms Division, Human Rights Watch, wrote in January.