Robots That Kill

Why It Matters

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.2 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Militaries around the world are designing artificial intelligence–powered weapons that could one day make their own decisions about who to target. The technology could change warfare, but at what cost?

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0:00.0	So if I say the words killer robot, you might imagine something that sounds like this.
0:09.3	I'm a friend of Sierra Kana.
0:11.1	Where is she?
0:15.0	I'll be back. The Terminator, a walking, talking, fully autonomous machine
0:20.0	designed to hunt and kill humans.
0:22.0	Scary stuff. But according to the expert... designed to hunt and kill humans.
0:22.5	Scary stuff.
0:23.9	But according to the experts,
0:25.2	the killer robots we really need to worry about
0:27.7	might sound something a bit more like this. No, not genetically modified killer bees. A swarm of tiny lethal drones. Right now drones are guided remotely by humans. But as technology is
0:46.2	developing, so is the ability to forego human guidance altogether.
0:50.3	The Pentagon investing billions of dollars to develop autonomous weapons
0:54.6	machines that could one day kill on their own.
0:57.0	This is as several countries come closer each year to creating the real thing.
1:01.3	Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is reportedly seeking a global ban on lethal autonomous
1:07.5	weapons.
1:08.5	I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters. Today, grappling with the reality of killer robots.
1:19.0	So what is a lethal autonomous weapon?
1:22.0	A lethal autonomous weapon.
1:22.9	A lethal autonomous weapon is quite simply
1:25.8	a weapon that makes its own decisions
1:27.6	about whom to kill on the battlefield.
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