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.'

Vienna is embarking on a diplomatic initiative to draw up an ethical framework for the use of killer robots on the battlefields of the future. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said similar standards should be adopted as those established for landmines and cluster weapons. "We have to create rules before killer robots reach the battlefield of this Earth," Schallenberg told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. He said the Austrian government was planning a conference in Vienna in 2021 "to usher in a process "to initiate a process that will hopefully lead to an international convention on the use of artificial intelligence on battlefields." Read more: Should'killer robots' be banned?